Cybersecurity: addressing the 'termination gap' and protecting data

Between remote work models, clinician burnout and an increased reliance on traveling healthcare professionals to meet shortages, the transient nature of the healthcare workforce in the pandemic era has deepened the risk of insider threats and data security.

With the common disconnect between IT and human resources departments, healthcare systems are often leaving terminated employees' access credentials active for potentially months after they’ve left an organization. It's a growing vulnerability exploited for cyberattacks. 

According to Joel Burleson-Davis, senior vice …