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Gillette Children ’ s Specialty Healthcare begins transformation with Infor
Located in St . Paul , Minnesota , Gillette is a leading pediatric health system with a long history of providing care to children with disabilities and complex medical needs .
In early 2020 , Gillette Children ’ s began searching for a new ERP solution with healthcare-specific capabilities that would provide clinical integration and less reliance on third-party applications as well as a single source of truth for reporting analysis .
Additionally , Gillette sought a partner with strong mobile capabilities through handheld devices to support field automation with real-time updates and remote data capture .
Gillette Children ’ s Specialty Healthcare will begin its cloud transformation journey through the selection of Infor CloudSuite Healthcare for financial and supply chain management .
Infor CloudSuite , built on Amazon Web Services , will deliver embedded analytics and industry-specific functionality , and will enable employees to reduce manual data processes , quickly answer critical business questions and analyze business performance .
Beth Risberg , Supply Chain Manager at Gillette Children ’ s Specialty Healthcare , said : “ The work we do at Gillette Children ’ s Specialty Healthcare is important .
Our teams care for patients who have some of the most complex , rare and traumatic conditions in pediatric medicine , which brings together many specialties , and has a lot of moving parts .
“ We needed a partner that could keep track of all of our evolving data and analytical needs .”
Tenable research finds serious vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
Tenable has disclosed details of a serious vulnerability in Microsoft
Teams discovered by its Zero-Day Research Team . By abusing PowerApps functionality ( a separate product used within Teams for building and using custom business apps ), threat actors could gain persistent read / write access to a victim user ’ s email , Teams chats , OneDrive , Sharepoint and a variety of other services by way of a malicious Microsoft Teams tab and Power Automate flows . tabs , meaning it can ’ t be exploited by an untrusted / unauthenticated attacker . At this time there is no evidence that this vulnerability has been exploited in the wild . Microsoft has implemented a solution to this issue , with no further action needed from end-users .
According to Microsoft , Teams reached 145 million daily active users in March 2021 , roughly a 90 % increase in the last 12 months . The growth is largely driven by a surge in remote work and distance learning , with many organizations rushing to make cloud-based communication and collaboration as simple as possible .
“ Despite its simplicity , this vulnerability poses a significant risk as it could be leveraged to launch a number of different attacks across a variety of services , potentially exposing sensitive files and conversations , or to allow an attacker to masquerade as other users and perform actions on their behalf ,” said Evan Grant , Staff Research Engineer at Tenable .
Exploit of this vulnerability is limited to authenticated users within a Teams organization who have the ability to create Power Apps
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