No-Cost Cyber Defense for U.S. Hospitals
“The Center for Internet Security® (CIS®), in partnership with Akamai, is offering the Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting (MDBR) service AT NO COST to all public and private hospitals and related healthcare organizations in the United States. This service provides an additional layer of cybersecurity protection that is proven, effective, and easy to deploy.
MDBR is a fully-managed proactive domain security service, with CIS and Akamai fully maintaining the systems required to provide the service. Once an organization points its DNS requests to Akamai’s DNS server IP addresses, every DNS lookup will be compared against a list of known and suspected malicious domains. Attempts to access known malicious domains associated with malware, phishing, ransomware, and other cyber threats will be blocked and logged.
The logged data is then provided by Akamai to CIS’s Security Operations Center (SOC). The SOC uses this data to perform detailed analysis and aggregate reporting for the benefit of the hospital community, as well as organization-specific reporting and intelligence services. If circumstances require, remediation assistance is provided for each organization that implements the service.”*
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*Excerpt from www.cisecurity.org.