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Drex dives into three pressing cybersecurity stories. First, Microsoft releases its largest Patch Tuesday update since 2017, with 161 updates addressing critical vulnerabilities. Next, Drex explores the proposed updates to HIPAA regulations, the challenges faced by healthcare organizations, and the importance of moving forward despite resource constraints. Finally, the episode wraps with a call to action for collaborative solutions in healthcare security. 

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Hey everyone, I'm Drex, and this is the Two Minute Drill, where I cover three hot security stories twice a week, all part of the 229 cyber and risk community here at This Week Health. Today's Two Minute Drill is brought to you by Interprise Health, a health catalyst company. It turns out you can reduce the time and effort needed for third party risk assessments by up to 50 percent using Enterprise Health's Blueprint Gen AI technology.

It's AI for the good guys. Get better insights. Find out more at Interprise Health. com. Thanks for joining me today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. If you're running Microsoft operating systems on your machines, you probably know that the day before yesterday was a doozy of a Patch Tuesday.

biggest batch in one go since:

You have to close the 155 tabs that you have open and then probably reboot the machine. But you know, now's the time. Let's go take a look at that story. It's on a new site. There's also a lot of rumblings about how the proposed rule updates for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, remember that's one P and two A's, we notice these things when you write us notes about it and you wreck the acronym.

It's a not so secret code that maybe you don't really know much about HIPAA. Anyway, the rule was published on January 6th with a 60 day comment period built in. So, get to the commenting please. But it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out because security should be nonpartisan, but January 20th is coming, that's Inauguration Day if you didn't know.

And a lot of folks appear to just be holding their breath, hoping that something will change when the new administration takes office. And then there's articles like this one from Axios titled Hospitals Bulk at Biden's Cybersecurity Upgrade. Forget the Biden part of it. I think that almost everyone I've talked to is in support of most of the initiatives that are in the new rules.

If you went through the same:

And I think whether the new HIPAA security regs compel it, or state regulations compel it, or class action lawsuits compel it, whatever it is, We have to keep moving forward and doing better. And hopefully your board and your leadership team will lean into that challenge. But I hate to say it, you know, I'd love it if the federal government came forward with a bunch of funding to support cyber upgrades, but money is political.

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That's exactly what they're for. Just give me a shout. I'd love to tell you more. There's more on all these stories and a lot of others at ThisWeekHealth. com slash news. Today's two minute drill was brought to you by Enterprise Health, a health catalyst company. Need to get all your leaders on the same page when prioritizing risk?

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Okay, that's it for today's 2 Minute Drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid, and I'll see you around campus.

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