Cyber Security as a Threat to Health Care

Abstract

Purpose: Cyber security incidents are posing an increasing risk to the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry has lagged behind other industries in protecting its most important stakeholder (patients), and hospitals must now invest significant capital and effort in protecting their systems. The goal of this research was to understand the complexities of the operating environment as well as document the technological vulnerabilities to avoid cybersecurity incidents. The eight Aggregated Response Strategies (EARS) framework contains 8 methodologies, which could be used by all the personnel in medical services associations. The secondary hypothesis derived out of this research was the six-step plans introduced by the American Health Association, which aided in ensuring cybersecurity with facilities and organizations in cases of potential threat. Methodology: The methodology used to derive this hypothesis was through literary reviews, which constituted research articles, journals, and peer-reviewed articles published between 2005 and 2021. These were obtained from PubMed, Google scholar, NCBI, ScienceDirect, CDC.gov, CMS.gov, and Census.gov databases. Finding: The finding suggested overall security awareness and training must be established immediately after a potential threat is detected. Authorities advise against paying ransomware attackers since there is no assurance that an attack will be reversed, Law enforcement should be immediately contacted in the event of a ransomware attack besides cloud data backups will make it simple to rebuild networks, disaster recovery planning should be done before a cybersecurity threat occurs. Cyber Security as a Threat to Health Care Adegoke Adebukola, Achen Navya, Foreman Jordan, Nwaobi Jenifer, Richard D. Begley Marshall University Department of Computer Science and Engineering Building Corresponding Author’s Email: adegoke@marshall.edu ABSTRACT Purpose: Cyber security incidents are posing an increasing risk to the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry has lagged behind other industries in protecting its most important stakeholder (patients), and hospitals must now invest significant capital and effort in protecting their systems. The goal of this research was to understand the complexities of the operating environment as well as document the technological vulnerabilities to avoid cybersecurity incidents. The eight Aggregated Response Strategies (EARS) framework contains 8 methodologies, which could be used by all the personnel in medical services associations. The secondary hypothesis derived out of this research was the six-step plans introduced by the American Health Association, which aided in ensuring cybersecurity with facilities and organizations in cases of potential threat. Methodology: The methodology used to derive this hypothesis was through literary reviews, which constituted research articles, journals, and peer-reviewed articles published between 2005 and 2021. These were obtained from PubMed, Google scholar, NCBI, ScienceDirect, CDC.gov, CMS.gov, and Census.gov databases. Finding: The finding suggested overall security awareness and training must be established immediately after a potential threat is detected. Authorities advise against paying ransomware attackers since there is no assurance that an attack will be reversed, Law enforcement should be immediately contacted in the event of a ransomware attack besides cloud data backups will make it simple to rebuild networks, disaster recovery planning should be done before a cybersecurity threat occurs.