PANACEA resilient and secure toolkit for healthcare infrastructures.

Abstract

Healthcare organizations are frequently subject to cybersecurity incidents. The outbreak of a pandemic such as COVID-19 has shown the need for specific operational and organizational measures to be in place in order to reduce the risk of successful cyberattacks. Time will be key: preparation is needed to ensure quick secure set-up of additional resources (IT, staff, medical devices) when the next emergency will hit. The PANACEA Solution Toolkit is a suite of complementary tools to provide Health Care Organizations (HCO) with assessment, guidance, technical and organizational "infrastructure" to address the cybersecurity challenges. It provides support for fortifying health organizations against cyber threats on multiple different levels (technical, behavioral, organizational, strategical) and across a diverse set of workflows and scenarios. In order to determine whether the toolkit satisfies the specific business and users' requirements in the selected use cases, a detailed validation plan and execution roadmap is established taking into account the constraints of the current emergent situation.