https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/temporary-hospitals-are-rife-cybersecurity-vulnerabilities
By Nathan Eddy
Healthcare IT News
April 22, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to a series of rapidly established
medical-treatment units the world over, which will be utilizing remote-care
devices that lack proper protection. The situation gives hackers more
opportunities to perpetrate attacks.
They could also infiltrate these devices to steal a patient's personal health
information, causing complications for both the users of these devices and the
healthcare providers themselves.
Temporary medical units carry a unique set of vulnerabilities due to the fact
they are remote and sit outside of a defense-in-depth architecture. Because of
the very nature of their purpose – to care for patients in a time of crisis –
IT security is naturally lower on the priority list.
"They are being set up quite quickly with constrained budgets, and the budget
for those is not on IT, it's on PPE, patient care, getting testing set up,
everything a center should be focused on during this crisis," Tom Burt,
corporate vice president of Microsoft Customer Security & Trust, told
Healthcare IT News.
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