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Intermountain Healthcare launches security operations center to combat health data cyberattacks

Modern Healthcare: Cyberattacks on the healthcare industry are on the rise. In response, some larger systems, including Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, are setting up around-the-clock security operations centers, or SOCs, to better deploy cybersecurity personnel, technology and processes in fending off the bad guys.

A SOC is a team, primarily composed of security analysts, organized to detect, analyze, respond to, report on and prevent cybersecurity incidents, according to Carson Zimmerman, principal cybersecurity engineer for the MITRE Corp., and author of a guidebook for setting up a SOC. Security operations centers have been fixtures in military and national security organizations for decades.

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