2 Minute Drill: Disinformation, Election Threats, and Healthcare Preparedness with Drex DeFord
Episode 765th November 2024 • This Week Health: Newsroom • This Week Health
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Hey everyone, I'm Drex, and this is the 2 Minute Drill, where I do three quick stories twice a week, all part of one great community, the 229 Cyber Risk community here at This Week Health. Today's 2 Minute Drill is brought to you by ORDR, the Asset Inventory Intelligence Platform. Did you know that you can know everything about everything on your network?

Every vulnerability, every risk, every user, everything. In real time. You can. Find out more at order. net slash healthcare. It's election day. Thanks for joining me. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. The FBI continues to warn voters that there's activity from both the Russians and the Iranians creating fake videos attributed to the FBI making false claims about ballot fraud arrests.

And generating fake quotes from legitimate researchers and journalists. I'm expecting this disinformation campaign to go on pretty endlessly for the next several months, so stay paranoid. There's a lot of people out there who want to break down your belief in democracy and the election process. Don't let them sink their teeth into you.

The Wall Street Journal has a story about how this election could be a Super Bowl for hackers. Cybercriminals colluding with nation states will likely attempt to hack networks and websites associated with the election, including news outlets. Whatever damage they can do, the goal is probably to gain fame, and that fame means they'll be able to ask for a higher price for whatever it is they're selling down the road.

Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, reminds voters that voting machines can't be hacked because they're not connected to the internet. And even if there are disruptions, it's a good reminder that almost all jurisdictions use paper ballots as an added safeguard.

Don't be surprised if general disruption is a goal for cyber thugs this week, including critical infrastructure. So that includes us, healthcare. Stay on your toes. And if you missed last week's Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Washington, D. C., it was a good one by all reports. It was loaded with great speakers like Greg Garcia, the Executive Director from the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, and Heather Costa, the Director of Tech Resilience at Mayo Clinic, and Eric Decker, the CISO at Intermountain Health.

There's more on that story and all of these stories at ThisWeekHealth. com slash news. Today's two minute drill was brought to you by Order. Do you really know who all your devices are talking to? You can bring some Order to your enterprise. Find out more at order. net slash healthcare. That's it for today's two minute drill.

Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid and I'll see you around campus.

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