HHS updates a free risk tool to help hospitals size up their cybersecurity exposure

The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a tool Thursday to help health care facilities assess their cybersecurity risks, elevating the emphasis on those threats to the kind produced by weather conditions and other dangers.

The assistance from HHS’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) comes in the form of an update to the Risk Identification and Site Criticality (RISC) 2.0 Toolkit to include a specific focus on cybersecurity. 

RISC is a free tool to help organizations identify threats and vulnerabilities, estimate consequences and share their findings with others. Now it will include a cybersecurity module, too.

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