title: A cybersecurity primer for translational research.
abstract: Virtually all health care organizations have had at least one data breach since 2012. Most of the largest data breaches and Health Care Information Privacy and Accountability Act fines could have been prevented by the simplest of strategies. Each researcher must clearly understand his or her responsibilities and liability.
authors.affiliation: Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, R&D Informatics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Harvard Medical School, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Countway Library of Medicine, Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston, MA 02115, USA. eric.perakslis@takeda.com.
authors.forename: Eric D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Perakslis
authors.affiliation: Department of Homeland Security, Federal Network Resilience, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, Arlington, VA 22203, USA.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stanley
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006801:Humans; D012308:Risk Management; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical