Cyber attacks can disrupt financial transactions, operations, aviation control, national electricity grids, road traffic systems, chemical treatment for domestic and medical water supply. … Among them, attacks and cybersecurity breaches in the medical field pose a very high risk.
Over the past two decades, the healthcare system has been gradually digitized. Digitization in the healthcare sector improves the quality of patient care. Digitization enables better workflow within an organization, facilitates communication between providers, and gives patients greater access and transparency when it comes to their individual health records. However, as systems become more digitized, they also become targets for cybercriminals. There are more opportunities for attacks and workflows to face a potentially life or death disruption when an attack occurs. In the future, increasing ransomware attacks will disrupt patient care, delay needed surgeries, and plunge healthcare networks into disarray.
Healthcare information is one of the most sensitive personal data, so protection becomes imperative for providers. Scientists and cybersecurity professionals need to develop security systems to prevent cyberattacks in the medical field early.
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