Group assignment ( rough Draft) Week 5 pt 2
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Drew Davidson, Eric Sinclair Banyon, Shady Navarro, Shalamar Santana, Ziomara Pagan, & Stephanie Jean Coute
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Our team video discussion was fruitful. We spoke of the importance of making sure that the healthcare side of the subject cybersecurity breaches. When it comes to passwords for company applications and access to charting the demand for making sure the passwords are changed every so often (Gupta et al., 2016). Because some of our team members are military affiliated one thing that we were able to agree on within this discussion is the importance of protecting patient PII. We discussed the heightened alert for cybersecurity breaches when working in the healthcare field and alongside the military. Talk of adding in current governmental events was also an excellent point for the assignment.
Cyber Security Breach Diagram
Cyber Security Breach in the HealthCare Industry
Cybersecurity breaches in the Healthcare industry pose a significant threat to those organizations. According to Gordon et al., cybersecurity breaches not only affect the patients and organizations important information but also these types of violations can affect the organization's creditability (2017). When an organization creditability comes into question due to a cybersecurity breach, that organization may lose customers due to the fear of their information not being appropriately protected. In Healthcare it is important that we understand the impact of cyber security breaches. Most of the major hospital in the United Stated are using electronic medical records (EMR). A lot of hackers are using Phishing to trick hospital and breaching their security protocol by tricking staff members into disclosing sensitive and personal information (Winder, 2014). Some cyber security attack may also include the use of medical devices, attacking medical devices in healthcare is almost the same as attacking a medical building, the only difference is that it is a human body (Storm, 2015).
Conclusion
Therefore, with heightened cases of cybersecurity breaches, it is vital to address data safety in healthcare organizations. Security breaches in healthcare can be handled by frequently changing passwords. In any given healthcare setting, it is so essential that patient information is protected. Some of the cybersecurity threats include eavesdropping, SQL injection, Password attack, and other malicious and non-malicious acts. These can be harmful to both military and healthcare organizations. However, threats can also come from within the organization primarily through data and password exposure by employees, data loss, phishing emails, virus and non-compliance with HIPPA rules. Staff training is one of how the security of data can be ensured. Educating healthcare staff about various ways through which security breaches can occur is an important step to deal with cybersecurity breaches. Cybersecurity breaches can give access to information by unauthorized people or even corrupt the whole organization’s data. As a result, the creditability of affected organizations lower and people’s confidence vanish. A more severe and adverse effect of cybersecurity breach to healthcare institutions is the loss of potential customers due to limited protection for their data. The problem should, therefore, be addressed both from within and outside organizations.
References
Gordon, W. J., Fairhall, A., & Landman, A. (2017). Threats to information security—Public health implications. New England journal of medicine, 377(8), 707-709.
Gupta, B., Agrawal, D. P., & Yamaguchi, S. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook of research on modern cryptographic solutions for computer and cyber security. IGI Global.
Storm, D. (2015).MEDJACCK. Hackers Hijacking Medical Devices to Create Backdoors in Hospital Networks.
Winder, D. (2014). "Phish Your Own Staff: Arming Employees to Beat Modern Attacks," Infosecurity, Nov. 28, 2014.
