In recent years, attacks on cybersecurity have wreaked havoc on healthcare. It is now possible to see the full impact of these cyberattacks on the healthcare segment in several countries.
To give you an idea, according to a violation report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Civil Rights, in 2016 alone there were 284 violations with 500 or more organizations and 15,106,367 people affected.
Continuous monitoring monitoring and traffic analysis are crucial ingredients for ensuring the cybersecurity of medical devices, healthcare institutions, healthcare professionals and, above all, patients.
Network allows administrators and security managers to control the context of of every packet entering and leaving the corporate healthcare network
Basically, network monitoring allows you to see and understand the security context, every packet that enters and leaves a healthcare institution's corporate network.
Monitoring effectively monitor a network is to be able to see and understand what information is entering, leaving and through the network, knowing whether this flow of information is wanted, unwanted, appropriate or inappropriate.
Programs and monitoring protocols will allow a healthcare organization to recognize when there has been a change in expected network operations and when unexpected and unwanted network activity occurs.
In addition to general availability of cybersecurity, continuous monitoring of the is also a key element in detecting cyber security incidents. security incidents. All too often, network intrusions occur in which a healthcare or administrative healthcare or administrative professional clicks on an email that leads to a compromise of the user's account.
Then, over several days or weeks, tens of millions of records of patients, relatives, financial and administrative records are sent outside the network to an IP address thousands of kilometers away. Months later, the network operator finally realizes that an intrusion has occurred.
In a environment, continuous network monitoring can interrupt the chain of attacks in healthcare institutions
Continuous continuous network monitoring can interrupt the chain of attacks at various locations in a institution and provides early detection by identifying malicious links in an identifying malicious links in an email, monitoring SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and preventing the links from appearing in a user's email.
In addition, when a malicious link is clicked, HTTP monitoring can block the outgoing connection with the malicious web server.
Imagine, for example, when 25 million records are exported from a database and are leaving the network, layer 3 network monitoring can generate an alert and block the data export, or database security could block the transaction. the transaction.
In other words continuous monitoring is knowing what is happening on the network, where and when it is happening, why it is happening and whether what is being observed is cause for concern or not.
The challenge of adopting security measures for a healthcare infrastructure
If a healthcare organization has not adopted the security measures that can reduce the risks of attacks, theft and loss of data privacy, what should it do?
The first step is to understand that there is a big challenge ahead and that a lack of commitment to solving the problem could put patients' lives and the institution's credibility at risk. patients and the credibility of the institution.
The hiring of a company to evaluate the current protection protocol and practice, identifying structural deficiencies, opportunities for risk management management, compliance and improvement that require immediate investment and response is one of the most response is one of the most recommended solutions to put an end to this risk situation.
Prioritize network monitoring as an assertive strategy for preventing attacks. In addition, look for investments in technology and protocols to continue reducing risk to the levels approved by executive management.
No one should rely exclusively on internal resources, regardless of scale. When it comes to the issue of cyber threat management and security compliance. The challenge is to establish a set of externally obvious practices and protocols that that demonstrate the organization's commitment to robust protection. robust protection.
It's about credibility, it's about trust, it's about objectivity. This cannot be achieved by relying exclusively on internal talent and introspective leadership. leadership.
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