While Affordable Care Act compliance and other healthcare concerns topped the minds of business executives and benefits professionals, cyber security also took center stage this year as employers looked to develop policies and procedures to protect themselves – and employees’ personal health information – from cyberattacks.
Data from The Graham Company released earlier this year noted that nearly three quarters of business leaders are most concerned about potential risks associated with cyber security threats to their organizations. And in a year that saw health insurer Anthem be the subject of a cyberattack in which the personal information of 80 million people was breached, employers have been taking more proactive approaches to mitigating risks of security breaches.
