{"id":20640,"date":"2020-06-02T13:56:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T11:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saytec.eu\/?page_id=20640"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T12:27:27","slug":"hospital","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.saytec.eu\/en\/hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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IT security for hospitals and care facilities<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The corona pandemic is now – as one would expect – massively influencing the selection of targets and methods by hackers and cybercriminals. Although a few groups “officially” announced that they would not attack medical facilities and hospitals until the end of the Covid 19 crisis, IT security managers shoud by no means rely on this “hacker codex”, but rather enormously strenghten their defensive measures in view of the overall very tense situation. This offers a broad perspective, which above all does not neglect the “human factor” …<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Overview of the risk situation<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Hospitals, nursing homes and research institutes have long been in the crosshairs of hackers, cyber-blackmailers and organizations that deal with Internet sabotage. On the one hand, interest is focused on the very sought-after customer, patient, research and patent data, on the other hand, institutions and hospitals are simply blackmailed again and again. It is not uncommon for the ransom demands to be tacitly addressed in order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of a complete IT blackout. If these goals cannot complain about a lack of challenges, even in “normal” times, the situation will deteriorate dramatically in view of the current global exceptional situation. In our opinion, the resulting shift in the hazard situation is as follows:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Increasing stress at all levels<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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People who are under stress make more mistakes. Both medical and administrative staff have been working in the red zone for weeks – or far beyond. Risk awareness in dealing with IT systems also decreases accordingly. It is not for nothing that the authors of phishing e-mails switch from personals, supposedly harmless product information and the typical inheritance information to e-mails that offer the much sought-after protective masks at amazingly affordable prices. Anyone who clicks wrong here out of professional interest and \/ or pure despair can open the door to cyber criminals for highly sensitive patient, company or research data. Furthermore, the utilization of the IT systems as a whole also increases, so that DDoS attacks that target the overloading and collapse of the digital infrastructure require significantly less bandwidth. Research institutes that have to collect, process and forward corona-relevant data on a large scale are facing an increasing threat and should not compromise on security even under high political and social pressure.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Risk factor teleworking & home office<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In order to cut contagion paths and prevent further spreading of the corona pathogen, a large number of people are currently working in the home office – of course also in the healthcare, medical and research sectors. However, you can only work effectively and productively from home if you can easily access all the necessary data – and if there are also trustworthy video conferencing solutions available. The provision of high-security, high-performance and user-friendly applications and connections is therefore one of the most urgent and most demanding tasks of company and institute-internal IT departments. To make matters worse, all countries, industries and areas of life currently have to switch to virtual alternatives. However, due to the large number of remote workplaces, the risk increases significantly. Each remote site is a further risk element for the data, applications and network infrastructures to be protected.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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All over the world, IT managers are facing unanticipated challenges. But how can this enormous task be mastered permanently and farsighted, especially in the medical and health sector?<\/p>\n