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Mitigating the Effects of Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Systems

2022/02/12 by Sreejith Gopinath, Gopinath, Sreejith, Aspen Olmsted +1
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information and Cyber Security #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2202.06108

openalex publication_date 2022/02/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Healthcare information systems deal with a large amount of Personally Identifiable Information related to patients like dates of birth and social security numbers, patients health information and history, and financial information like credit card details and bank accounts. Most healthcare institutions purchase information systems from commercial vendors and have minimal inhouse expertise required to maintain these systems. Most institutions lack the expertise required to research evolving threats and maintain a tough security posture. We propose a risk transference based system architecture that moves sensitive data outside the system boundary, into data stores that are managed with stringent and efficient security protocols.

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