Maryland health institutions join forces to combat cyberattacks

At least six major health systems across the country have suffered debilitating cyberattacks this year, including most recently Columbia-based MedStar Health. The rate has unsettled health system information technology administrators who are now working together to block future attacks.

The constant threat of a breach — as well as a hack at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014 — moved systems security chiefs at the University of Maryland, Baltimoreand related hospitals and medical schools to organize a collaborative effort to fend off outsiders intent on infiltrating the institution’s electronic systems.

“This is extremely important because we all connect to a single electronic backbone,” said Peter J. Murray, chief information officer and vice president for information technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, before introducing a panel of university-affiliated IT officials who gathered Friday for a cybersecurity conference on campus. For the full article click here 

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