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What role does cybersecurity play in medicine and healthcare?

• Posted by Jack prabha November 24, 2020 Filed in Technology #CyberSecurity  #Information Security Engineer  220 views
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  Cybersecurity is vital today in all economic spheres. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially important to keep the healthcare industry safe. Even in this difficult time, there are people who are capable of damaging medicine. But it depends on it whether humanity can cope with the threat of a global epidemic.

  Here are the main reasons why medical companies, hospitals and healthcare centers should definitely not neglect cybersecurity issues.

  What role does cybersecurity play in medicine and healthcare?

  The importance of the security of personal data of patients and doctors
  Cyberattacks on patient medical databases pose a serious risk to their privacy. If a hospital or clinic's data bank is compromised, hackers gain access to the personal data of their clients. And we are talking not only about a person's illnesses and ailments, but also about his residence address, telephone, e-mail, and even bank cards.

  Failure to adhere to basic privacy and security rules in a healthcare facility can also result in severe fines, litigation with patients, and severe damage to reputation.

  The Information security engineer should work in collaboration with the information security team to offer support to security tools and technologies such as firewall, proxy server, remote access, and others.

  It is also important that the very process of providing medical care to a patient may be jeopardized. If during the break-in, medical records were defeated or erased, then this will greatly complicate the treatment process.

  Hackers' access to patient data not only opens the door for them to steal personal information, but also to intentionally or unintentionally alter the data, which can lead to serious consequences for the health of patients.