How to integrate and use frameworks in healthcare cybersecurity system?

Nick Webdev
1 min readMar 13, 2021

As of 2020, the most common security threats in the medical field are:

Human factors and unintentional mistakes. These mistakes are made by hospital staff as a result of an accident or deliberate sabotage. Most often, random errors occur due to the complex interface of the program.

Ransomware. According to the Comparitech portal, in 2016, 172 ransomware cyberattacks were carried out on US medical organizations. This resulted in a loss of $ 157 million. Often such programs occur due to the theft of assets or the random distribution of access keys.

Safety risk from medical devices. More and more medical equipment integrates with computers to quickly transfer information about the patient’s condition. These handy features also carry some cybersecurity risks. Virus, malware, and other harmful programs may be placed on the media device that may harm the main site and the medical device.

What do you think about this? I read more about the risks here.

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