Cybersecurity has always been a challenge for the Healthcare sector and the efforts to tackle these challenges have produced mixed results. Like all industries, they must guard against cyberattacks, but with limited resources (be it in good times or bad times)
The move towards adopting new technologies whether it is to digitize patient records or increase in the use of telehealth tools has added benefits of making patient data global and readily accessible, making treatment for the patients faster and more efficient.
Cybercrime is on the rise. In 2019, it showed a 40 per cent increase in data breaches in the healthcare sector. First and foremost, acknowledging the fact that there is risk and understanding the size of it is important. Here are a few common threats that the companies face:
The UK's National Health System (NHS) was targeted by WannaCry cyberattack. The hackers managed to infect 16 health centers and 200000 computers which led to paralyzing 1200 pieces of diagnostic equipment and cancelling 20,000 appointments.
The DDoS attack on the Boston Children’s Hospital led to their donations page being shut down and an estimated 300,000 dollars lost in repairs of their systems.
This growing prevalence of technology increases the risk of “medjacking”, or medical device hijacking, as demonstrated by the security flaw that researchers discovered in General Electric respirators and anaesthesia machines.
We, here at Digital Defense, understand all the challenges and provide the right security strategy to tackle them.
We perform periodic security assessments and penetration testing so that organization can avoid any security threats, data breaches and also manage their reputation.
We work with your internal teams to identify high-risk areas to create strategies to drive down the risk as opposed to remediating it as a one-off.
Infrastructure security is the backbone of any enterprise to ensure that we try to simulate threat actors and achieve objectives by non-destructive methods.
Compliance is not security but it’s a base at which an organization can build a foundation for its security program. All these mandates are meant to protect the Electronic Health Records(EHR) of your patients.
There are many security mandates like HIPAA and PCI and you would require a partner to provide continuous compliance in a dynamic IT environment and we can help you achieve that.
Our deliverables are comprehensive in nature that addresses both technical and business audiences.
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