Journalist details how nurses can avoid cyberattacks

Cybersecurity journalist Casey Crane provided cogent advice to Daily Nurse about cybersecurity in the health sector. She emphasized best practices such as having unique passwords for each account, not clicking on attachments unless they come from trusted sources and never connecting personal devices to those in the workplace. She also outlined the tricks hackers use to gain access to personal information and encouraged skepticism of unusual or urgent requests. According to Crane, the Department of Defense offers free, online cyber awareness training in the form of its Cyber Awareness Challenge. (Daily Nurse article, 9/9/20)