New York City Long-Term Care Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise

GNYHA will conduct several member debriefing sessions the week of August 5 on the CrowdStrike outage that occurred July 19. The sessions will focus on your organizations’ response, continuity of patient care services, and areas for improved coordination. Your staff will have an opportunity to share individual approaches with other GNYHA members and provide feedback...

GNYHA continues to assess the CrowdStrike outage’s impact on hospital operations since Friday, including the need to rely on downtime procedures and manually reconfigure computer workstations. We remain in contact with State and local officials who are monitoring for impacts. Our main request to date is for New York State to relax prior authorization requirements...

GNYHA is responding to a major network outage affecting the Windows systems worldwide, including those of hospitals. It involves an update issued by CrowdStrike, which provides cybersecurity products and services. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz issued a statement explaining that the outage was caused by a defect in an update to a product. The statement said...