How Cybersecurity Protect Data in Healthcare Industry? Cybersecurity in healthcare is a unique challenge. With cybersecurity, you can block and issue different new banking cards. But if information about laboratory tests or diseases are leaked, it’s not possible to cancel them. The healthcare industry has been changing rapidly through the application of new technologies. With a greater pace, global pandemics have put pressure on many countries and entire regions of the world to adopt better measures, as well as change their strategies when it comes to things like data privacy and analytics. An extremely sensitive ePHI (electronic protected health information) is at risk. It is handled by almost every clinic and hospital in various digital systems. Providers such as physicians and pharmacists use EHRs (electronic health records) and other software working with medical information. And this data is a very tempting target for hackers. In recent months we've seen more attacks being carried out on medical infrastructure, and in turn this has had a dramatic impact upon the amount of damage caused by ransomware.
Types of cybersecurity threats in the healthcare industry: Phishing: Phishing emails, social media or text messages distributed to network computers often contain links or attachments that contain malware that can infect the system. Man-in-the-middle(MITM)attacks: Cybercriminals will inject themselves into the back and forth of digital conversations in order to gain access to highly confidential user data. Attacks to network vulnerabilities: As it turns out, cybercrimes can target wired and wireless networks, which provide access to patient information. Examples of these kinds of cybercrimes are address