Cyber Risk Management in Healthcare

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM: CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE
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Introduction.
• There are a wide range of issues that the current healthcare
domains face when it comes to managing risks in an organization.
• Risks in an organization can entail a variety of examples.
• This presentation deals with the aspect of cyber risk management
in the healthcare industry.
• The importance of cyber risk management in the healthcare
industry is associated with the vast amount and types of data and
information that is gathered in the computers and systems.
• These information can range from patient’s details to healthcare
logs and even information regarding contagious diseases and the
organization’s past involvements with other patients.

• Risk in the domain of cybersecurity allows for breaches
in the system by virtue of which, hackers and other
similar entities can either gain access to the system or
corrupt the system.
• As a result, the organisation is left to face a wide range
of problems with respect to data privacy and
occupational security.
• This also jeopardizes the stakeholder – organization
relationship and causes a range of issues for the
organization to deal with.

Rationale.
• Hospitals and other healthcare organizations have been
experiencing both targeted and the untargeted attacks
repeatedly (Shackelford, 2014).
• Patients’ information has been tampered with by accessing
the information system of the hospital in various ways.
• Hackers and cyber terrorists are able to manipulate the
source code of a particular program to install virus, malware,
ransomware and other similar types of detrimental programs
in the organization’s software.
• This has led to a serious cause for concern when it comes to
sensitive information.