As the world continues to grapple with the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it is infuriating to see cyber-attacks targeting healthcare providers. Already impacted are the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (Champaign, IL), Brno University Hospital (Brno, Czech Republic), Affordacare Urgent Care Clinic (Abilene, TX), Hammersmith Medicines Research (London, United Kingdom), and presumably others are under attack as well. Given what’s at stake, any slowdown in their work may easily cost lives.
Just as fast as COVID-19 is moving, we too need to take action NOW, and the team at Bit Discovery would like to do our part.
We believe it is our responsibility to assist healthcare providers to prevent breaches and we can do this by creating an inventory of all their externally-facing Internet assets (i.e. websites, mail servers, VPN gateways, databases, IoT devices, etc.)—today. An asset inventory, or lack thereof, is a well-known and long-standing security gap for many organizations. We DO NOT want to see healthcare providers breached simply because they didn’t know an asset existed, and not when we could have helped them to do something about it. If you work for a healthcare provider and an asset inventory is something you need, we’d like to help.
Effective immediately and through May 15, 2020, a user account on the Bit Discovery platform will be free for all healthcare providers. And, we’re happy to support as many as we’re able to.
To obtain an account, please email healthcare@bitdiscovery.com from a healthcare provider’s email address (so we can quickly verify) and request an account. Upon receipt, we’ll provision a Bit Discovery account and you’ll receive instructions for how to create an inventory right now! Once complete, any missing security controls on previously unknown assets can be implemented.
We stand ready to immediately support and assist the security teams at healthcare providers worldwide. Please email us for additional information or with any questions. Thank you.
Regards,
Jeremiah Grossman
CEO, Bit Discovery
