Oracle launches the Autonomous Shield initiative, focusing on cloud cybersecurity
At its first-ever Health Summit in Nashville on Tuesday, Oracle announced a new cybersecurity-focused service for its healthcare customers, Autonomous Shield.
WHY IT MATTERS
The launch of the new Autonomous Shield Initiative aims to help customers migrate to a comprehensive electronic health record and cloud infrastructure that the company says can reduce cyber risk – thanks to the automation and security of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Autonomous Shield aims to simplify EHR migrations from Oracle Health to OCI with built-in security best practices, solution architecture development, application migration, go-live support and more.
OCI can help healthcare customers “prevent, detect, and respond to security issues with autonomous databases and operating systems that can automatically patch and protect against the latest vulnerabilities,” the company says, physically isolating itself and customers from each other to reduce the opportunities for attacks Reduce .
Always-on data encryption and default-enabled multi-factor authentication, activity monitoring and DDoS protection – along with 256-bit AES encryption for data at rest and in transit – provide further protection.
“Cyberattacks pose an immediate and existential threat to healthcare worldwide,” Seema Verma, chief executive of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, said in a statement.
“With our clinical applications running on OCI, we provide our customers – large and small – with the same military-grade security used to protect the most sensitive data at some of the largest and most advanced companies, national defense agencies and governments around the world. world.”
THE BIG TREND
Cybersecurity interests in healthcare remain high. Oracle Health cites a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showing that: 239% increase in major breaches involving hacking and a 278% increase in ransomware reported in the past four years.
And while cybersecurity budgets are increasing, providers still spend only about 8% of their IT budgets on security, the company notes – well below what other industries spend.
Two years after acquiring Cerner, Oracle says it has made major investments to improve the security and performance of its core clinical applications.
After the Change Healthcare cyberattack, Oracle says it helped redirect traffic from several major healthcare networks using the clearinghouse to other gateways within days, helping them avoid payment disruptions on more than $3 billion in claims.
“Recent events in healthcare have exploited the vulnerabilities facing health systems around the world,” United Medical CEO Kemal Erkan said in a statement. “Now more than ever, it is important that healthcare systems choose companies like Oracle that make security simple – easy to use, deploy and operate. Our transition to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has been seamless and gives us greater confidence in the performance and security of our technology. ”
ON THE RECORD
In a conversation with former Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist, Larry Ellison, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Oracle, spoke Tuesday in Nashville described the company’s approach towards autonomous database technology.
“There is a new generation of data systems called autonomous databases that are virtually unbreakable because humans don’t manage them, they are autonomous.” he explained.
“Almost all cyber attacks start the same way: human error,” he added. “But if you take the human out of the loop and these critical parts of the cyber system, the thing that manages your data, you can’t attack those systems because they can’t be misconfigured, because people don’t configure them. They can’t be an insider job. where someone maliciously attacks the system because there is no human access to it. It’s all completely automated.”
That “autonomous digital infrastructure exists, we have it,” Ellison said. “Our history consists of building highly secure systems. The only way we discovered, and it took us a long time to make sure that these systems are indeed secure, because as soon as there is a human actor, there is a vulnerability, either an error or malicious intent.
“And until you take the human actor out, and that’s what we ultimately did to build these systems, because to defend your data, to defend your computer systems, it can’t be their robots — because these are robot attacks, this are robots they build to attack our systems – it can’t be their robots versus our people. We’ll lose that any day of the week. It should be our robots versus their robots tips for us. We have the advantage and have built a track record of consistently preventing cyber attacks.”
Mike Miliard is editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News
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