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re:publica 18 - Alle Sessions Podcast
Trust us - your health data are safe ... oops.

Trust us - your health data are safe ... oops.

re:publica 18 - Alle Sessions vor 8 Jahren

In May 2017 the WannaCry ransomware attack disrupted hospitals all over the world. The attack should have been a wake-up call for IT security in healthcare - but has anything changed since then? What are the dangers, really? Can hackers harm people or eve

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Jelena Milosevic, Brigitte Strahwald Hospitals are still an
attractive target for criminal hackers, also because they
are still consideres soft targets. The attacks have different
objectives, one of them is to gain access to individual
health, medical and personal data. Patients can thus be more
or less directly harmed. As a nurse, Jelena is facing these
challenges daily. She sees vulnerability on all levels and in
all roles and locations in the hospital – in
software, devices, and with humans. The consequences can be
severe and harm patients, employees and the hospital itself.
The reasons are manifold, e.g. stressed
healthcare workers with limited interest in IT security,
poorly equipped IT departments, missing updates, ignorance,
organisational shortcomings in the hospitals . We need to
understand why IT security in hospitals is so fragmentary.
We also need to understand the working conditions in hospitals
and the needs of the healthcare workers. We need to understand
the system and the processses and how medical devices
and computers are connected. We need to think
about innovations and IoT, e-health, digital and smart
hospitals. Jelena will show a lot of examples and discuss with
Brigitte and the audience how to create awareness so that we
can build a safe and secure IT environment in hospitals.