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STRATEGIES
FOR HEALTHCARE
ORGANIZATIONS TO COMBAT
CYBERCRIME
O
ver the past few years, the magnitude of threat against
healthcare organizations is growing exponentially. Currently,
the healthcare industry is striving hard to target the cyber
breaches. The Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are
becoming smarter and sophisticated to outmaneuver the
cybercriminals. The healthcare organizations are acutely focusing on
their IT functions and effectively correlating information to mitigate
the risks of cybercrime. They are consolidating this information from
the various vulnerability scanners to effectively manage and aid their
business context. Various foremost healthcare organizations are
adopting cutting-edge cyber security approach, where the senior
board arrays the tenor for the organizational operations to
successfully respond to the cyber risks.
Categorizing the Assets
There is a major necessity for the healthcare organizations to
understand the cyber security risks for smooth management of their
business context. They need to establish a specific data security team
to classify data assets in association with their business significance.
Managing the patient records and keeping in mind the susceptibilities
existing in a client's desktop would be far less than those present on
an acute database server is very imperative. The healthcare
organizations should prioritize the most critical assets which can lead
to effective threat mitigation efforts backing the cyber security. The
traditional and upcoming healthcare organizations need to
conceptualize and take firm measures safeguarding the patient data
and classifying the assets to certify complete network security.
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Staying Updated to the Latest Threats
The developing world is witnessing severe
cyber security threats. This budding cyber
security landscape influences the IT and security
squads to stay updated to the latest threats and
their respective agents. They need to
successfully predict the attack vectors by
educating their staff about the recent scams and
threats. The healthcare organizations should
provide their employees with the training based
on the security risks in accessing links and
attachments in the email. The healthcare
organizations need to abandon the obsolete
technology and replace it with modernized
technology that is highly resistant to
cybercrime. They need to tremendously engage
with the smart and quick Big Data Analytics to
secure gigantic computerized data and
converting the unstructured SIEM data to a
specific format for making strategic decision to
reduce cybercrime.
Involve Business Acquaintances
The healthcare organizations need to pitch in
with additional resources, to ensure information
security. These organizations need to engage the
various business associates and merchants for
accountable and secured health information
under the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA). The business
associates can face direct civil liability for a
breach of this act. However, it is the
responsibility of the healthcare organization to
confirm that their business associates are
maintaining Protected Health Information
(PHI) effectively. Establishing a strong
persistent program to monitor business
associates gives the health organizations the
threat intelligence they need to guard their
business against duplicitous transactions. The
affiliation of the healthcare organizations with
the business associates will help them to
monitor the new risks, controls, and the
emerging vulnerabilities of the cybercrime.
Implementing Appropriate Controls
The healthcare organizations should implement
strict measures to confront and terminate the
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs. They
should focus on the execution of the suitable