Security News > 2020 > December > Ransomware and IP Theft: Top COVID-19 Healthcare Security Scares

Beau Woods, a Cyber Safety Innovation Fellow with the Atlantic Council, founder and CEO of Stratigos Security and a leader with the I Am The Cavalry grassroots initiative, said that hospitals are facing widespread security threats from ransomware to data IP theft.

In 2016, I led the authoring of a document called the Hippocratic Oath for Connected Medical Devices, which essentially was a translation of the ages-old Hippocratic Oath into a modern era, now that increasingly healthcare delivery is being undertaken by medical devices by electronic healthcare records and other systems that support the physicians.

Doctors, nurses, clinicians, and hospital administration rely on electronic health record systems, they rely on medical devices, particularly radiology devices - X-Rays, MRIs, those types of things.

You know, looking at insulin pumps, X-Rays, and I believe it was this week, GE issued a security advisory about radiology devices that had a vulnerability in them.

So hardening the devices, isolating, one part of the device connects to the network, from the other part of the device that actually delivers care.

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