Simon Wijckmans, CEO and founder of c/sideOf the many, many facets of healthcare-industry cybersecurity that IT leaders must be aware of, browser-side attacks and data leaks have particularly high potential to blindside an organization. Just ask leading healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente, which recently suffered a gargantuan data breach compromising the sensitive personal information of 13.4 million past and present insurance holders. The source of this breach wasn’t a nefarious attacker, although it could have been. In this case, careless management of browser-side third-party scripts resulted in unintentional and improper sharing of patients’ data and browsing behavior with external vendors and advertisers.The incident: why third-party browser scripts are a first-rate security concernThe data breach incident stemmed from Kaiser Permanente’s use of tracking codes designed to understand user behavior and usage patterns on the company’s websites and mobile applications. That tracking code captured data including patients’ names, IP addresses, their login status, the web pages they visited, and the search terms they entered to find information in Kaiser’s health encyclopedia. Unfortunately, third-party scripts active on Kaiser’s websites and mobile apps then inadvertently transmitted that data to third-party advertisers.  Tracking scripts used by healthcare-industry organizations must comply with HIPAA and other privacy regulations, and Kaiser reported the breach to the U.S

Cybersecurity startup Client-side Development Inc., which does business as C/side, said today it has closed on a $6 million seed funding round to accelerate the development of its tools for monitoring, optimizing and securing browser-side third-party scripts.

c/side, a San Francisco, CA-based cybersecurity company with tools for monitoring, optimizing, and securing vulnerable browser-side third-party scripts, raised $6M in Seed funding