Cybersecurity and technology resources

This covers privacy legislation (i.e., PHIPA), your obligations under the act, protecting PHI from security incidents, and cybersecurity content and scenarios informed by real-world experiences. 

This covers what primary care clinicians need to know about privacy and security when delivering virtual care, including applicable legislation, consent requirements and privacy policies.

Privacy breaches due to cyberattacks, hacks, ransomware and viruses are an everyday reality. OMA Insurance provides cyber liability insurance that is affordable and easy to get.

This guide offers tips on how to maintain strong passwords for all of your accounts, including with the OMA.

This looks at how commercially available VPNs allow users to communicate securely to various sites over the Internet.

This guide from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security looks at how you can protect yourself from the use of COVID-19 in phishing campaigns and malware scams.

This guide from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security covers the different ways you can keep your organization and yourself safe while shopping online.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has summarized some common methods that cyber-threat actors use to steal personal health data and intellectual property or disrupt the operations of health-care organizations.

This article explains why health-care organizations should encourage cyber hygiene among employees and require proper password security measures, such as multifactor authentication.

This webpage provides recommendations, products and resources to increase organizational vigilance and keep stakeholders informed about cybersecurity threats and destructive exploits against critical infrastructure.

This guide is intended to ensure that organizational leaders are aware of cyber risks and take urgent, near-term steps to reduce the likelihood and impact of a damaging compromise.

The AMA has curated resources and has tips for physicians and health-care staff to protect patient health records and other data from cyberattacks. 

Use CheckPhish to scan a URL to detect phishing, counterfeit or malicious websites and other suspicious threats.

Analyze suspicious files and URLs of malware with VirusTotal.

Check your email account to see if it has been compromised in a data breach.

LastPass is a secure password manager that stores all of your usernames and passwords in a central hub of stored data.

Dashlane is a web and mobile app that aims to simplify password management for people and organizations across all platforms and devices.

Keeper provides password management, secrets management, privileged access, secure remote access and encrypted messaging.