Case Study Of My Health Record

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Table of Contents
Part-I................................................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Security policy.................................................................................................................................2
Planning of Security Policy for System Access...........................................................................3
Development of Security Policy for System Access..................................................................4
Management of Security Policy for System Access....................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Part-II...............................................................................................................................................7
Computer Viruses........................................................................................................................7
Social engineering........................................................................................................................7
Distributed Denial of Service.......................................................................................................8
Phishing attacks............................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Part-I
Introduction
The Australian government has decided to delete the personal heath storage system to
avoid data breaches and many bad impacts on patients and other people (Nott, 2018). The
Australian government has implemented centralized system to manage its various works in a
proper manner. In addition, the commonwealth government of Australia has provided various
systems to provide different services to Australians. Now, the commonwealth government will
provide My Health Record (MHR) system to secure all the personal details of a person with their
health records and treatment, which will be used for the treatment of those particular persons.
MHR will provide various benefits to the government as well as the Australians in their
treatment and emergency conditions at anywhere and anytime. This system has accessible by
only limited persons with a high level of security and privacy of data, as personal and health data
is highly sensitive and confidential. There are various advantages of a common health record
system. The commonwealth government wants to improve the security and privacy of the MHR
system using emerging technologies. It is a basic need for the MHR system. In addition, there are
some issues and challenges in the implementation of MHR system.
Security policy
The healthcare sector has adopted various technologies and innovations in their practice
to improve their efficiency and performance (Pai & Huang, 2011). MHR system will store all
the personal records of a patient, which will be related to their treatment and personal things. The
government should create security policies to secure personal and confidential data of people. It
will be a centralized system of the government. There are many security issues with a large
amount of data in the present era. The MHR system will collect different types of data, such as
name, mobile number, email ID, addresses, credit card details, treatment details, medical history,
and many others. Most of the countries have used online health records to improve the treatment
of a patient and other things, such as research, knowledge, and many more (Hsiao & Hing,
2012).

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Planning of Security Policy for System Access
Data access is an easy task for the particular system, but there are security and privacy
issues with the MHR. In addition, there are various security plans in which all the particular data
and information must secure from cyber-attacks. In addition, MHR system can be accessible
from doctors, hospitals, patients and the government. The government should plan for security of
the databases and whole system from cyber-attacks. The commonwealth government should
include cybersecurity and mitigation strategies to reduce risks of the system.
There are various international frameworks for the security and privacy of the MHR
system, such as COBIT, ITL, ISO/IEC 27001, and many more. The commonwealth government
should include such types of framework to improve the security and privacy of the system. The
healthcare sector provides various services to citizens. Therefore, it is necessary to secure their
information assets from various cybersecurity.
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There are some hardware and software configuration to improve the security of the whole
system, which avoids risks from the overall system. It is necessary to plan and configure
software and hardware for security, such as firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, and monitoring tools
(Osman, 2018).