Healthcare organizations must tighten security or risk getting breached, penalized, and potentially ostracized by a public fed up with seeming carelessness with their personal information. Unfortunately, the task of securing protected health information (PHI) is only becoming more challenging for even the best-prepared organizations. Fitness bands, hospital portals, electronic health records, health information exchanges, insurance networks -- the list of Internet-connected devices, tools, and sites containing personal and medical data keeps growing. The healthcare sector has been under attack for some time. In 2014, despite headlines dominated by JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot, and other retail or financial entities, the healthcare industry accounted for 43% of all major breaches, according to the Ponemon Institute.
