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Ransomware in the Healthcare Cloud
Ransomware in the Healthcare Cloud

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Health Information Management
The healthcare industry faces significant challenges, somewhat unique to other industries. It requires the collection of huge amounts of sensitive data, that pose significantly longer-term risks compared to other industries. Moreover, the data is inherently more attractive to hackers than other types of data that can be accessed and exploited. As a result, there are a cascade of negative impacts to those organizations successfully attacked: there can be significant fines/penalties or legal actions extracted by regulatory agencies such as HHS, FDA and GDPR. 

From a risk perspective, the damages cannot be fully mitigated such as in financial services with credit card cancellation or closed bank accounts. Private patient data can be re-sold, recycled and reused in an endless cycle of fraud and abuse! Without improved and more effective interventions, the outcomes are very predictable. As more sensitive data moves to the cloud, and more cloud providers, the volume of targets will grow and the volume of data will grow exponentially. The Cloud Security Alliance is committed to its continuation of providing research on all aspects of cloud computing including best practices and guidelines for effective security and compliance. 


Health Information Management

Cloud Security Research for Healthcare

CSA Research crowd-sources the knowledge and expertise of security experts and helps address the challenges and needs they’ve experienced, or seen others experience, within the cybersecurity field. Each publication is vendor-neutral and follows the peer review process outlined in the CSA Research Lifecycle. We recommend getting started by reading the following documents.

Ransomware in the Healthcare Cloud

Ransomware in the Healthcare Cloud

Ransomware is the fastest-growing malware threat today. Over the last few years, it has risen to epidemic proportions, quickly becoming a significant revenue stream for criminal enterprises. Ransomware directly affects the ability of the Healthcare Delivery Organization (HDO) to access their data. Ransomware attacks, to complicate matters, cause more than a simple outage. They can attack the backup infrastructure. So, it’s not just about restoring from a backup; HDOs need to ensure that they recover from an uninfected backup. To add to the problem, healthcare data in cloud storage is not immune to ransomware. However, cloud storage can give you a significant advantage with data protection due to the number of flexible recovery options.

Telehealth Data in the Cloud

Telehealth Data in the Cloud

In the wake of COVID-19 Health Delivery Organizations (HDOs) are rapidly increasing their utilization of telehealth capabilities like Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and telemedicine so treat patients without leaving their home. This paper addresses the privacy and security concerns related to processing, storing, and transmitting patient data in the cloud for telehealth solutions.

Managing the Risk for Medical Devices Connected to the Cloud

Managing the Risk for Medical Devices Connected to the Cloud

This paper explains how to manage medical devices based on their proximity to the patient and introduces practices to secure the use of cloud computing for medical devices. The first section describes requirements for purchasing new devices to ensure the identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities prior to implementation. The second section describes how to manage the risk based on the proximity of the device to the patient. 

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