TY - GEN
T1 - Assessment of the Impact of Cyber-Attacks and Security Breaches in Diagnostic Systems on the Healthcare Sector
AU - Srivastava, Kushal
AU - Faist, Katja
AU - Lickert, Benjamin
AU - Neville, Karen
AU - McCarthy, Nora
AU - Fehling-Kaschek, Mirjam
AU - Stolz, Alexander
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The healthcare sector has become a prime target for cyber-attacks, with major attacks and disruptions reported in 2024. Due to the time criticality of operations and potential business impacts, the attack information shared is very restrictive, and sometimes the event is not even reported. The natural reaction of the industry has been investment into state-of-the-art intrusion detection systems and artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions for early detection of attacks. However, in the absence of a guaranteed protection against such attacks and considering the widespread use of highly vulnerable legacy systems, preparation is key. This paper explores the potential effects of ransomware cyber-attack on the performance of the hospitals. The study applies mitigation measures from the literature in an agent-based simulation setup to assess the resilience of the hospital system. The aim of the simulation is to help hospitals to understand and quantify impact of attack, optimize resources, better plan for and respond to such disruptions.
AB - The healthcare sector has become a prime target for cyber-attacks, with major attacks and disruptions reported in 2024. Due to the time criticality of operations and potential business impacts, the attack information shared is very restrictive, and sometimes the event is not even reported. The natural reaction of the industry has been investment into state-of-the-art intrusion detection systems and artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions for early detection of attacks. However, in the absence of a guaranteed protection against such attacks and considering the widespread use of highly vulnerable legacy systems, preparation is key. This paper explores the potential effects of ransomware cyber-attack on the performance of the hospitals. The study applies mitigation measures from the literature in an agent-based simulation setup to assess the resilience of the hospital system. The aim of the simulation is to help hospitals to understand and quantify impact of attack, optimize resources, better plan for and respond to such disruptions.
KW - agent-based simulation
KW - business continuity
KW - cyber-attack
KW - Cyber-security
KW - Cyber-threat intelligence (CTI)
KW - ransomware
KW - Resilience
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85206193907
U2 - 10.1109/CSR61664.2024.10679475
DO - 10.1109/CSR61664.2024.10679475
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85206193907
T3 - Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2024
SP - 531
EP - 536
BT - Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2024
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2024
Y2 - 2 September 2024 through 4 September 2024
ER -