When the Ponemon Institute released its 2016 Global Visual Hacking Experiment, the research firm found that 91 percent of visual hacking attempts are successful.
Visual hacking applies to spying on physical items, like someone’s desk, computer screen or mobile device, even paper records. These attacks not only happen very quickly but they are also very difficult to detect when it does happen.
Many of these vulnerabilities, however, aren’t addressed by healthcare organizations, as the chief information security officers and chief privacy officers are generally IT people focused on technology, according to Kate Borten, member of the Visual Privacy Advisory Council and founder of The Marblehead Group, a privacy and information security firm.
