Health groups urge cyber commission to address certification, info-sharing

Healthcare sector groups are stressing the need to certify compliance with cybersecurity standards and urging the federal government to further promote information sharing, a breach notification standard, and legal protections for companies that address cybersecurity proactively, in comments to the president’s cybersecurity commission.

“Confidence in the implementation of any cyber security framework (CSF) is supported by the capability to obtain an accepted certification of an entities’ implementation of that CSF,” writes the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in its...