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It's interesting that this topic was much talked about when I was working with hospitals 3-5 years ago. They've seen it coming, but have largely squandered the
by ch4s3 6y ago
It's interesting that this topic was much talked about when I was working with hospitals 3-5 years ago. They've seen it coming, but have largely squandered the opportunity.
Most hospitals store their data and run systems on-prem and are hyper-allergic to anything cloud based. They often have sloppy if extant back-up policies, and I've never heard of a hospital practicing a restore from backups. They also all seem to have terrible policies around passwords that cause most of their staff to iterate passwords every few months by simply incrementing a number at the end. You're also quite likely to find passwords on post it notes under half the keyboards in a given facility.
Security certifications are kind of a joke and mostly conducted by lawyers and compliance officers who have no technical background, let-alone info sec training.
TL;DR this has been a ticking time bomb for a decade and everyone involved knew it.