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Interfaith's zero trust network protects against cyberattacks, saves $2 million
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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 05:50:08 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/interfaith-s-zero-trust-network-protects-against-cyberattacks-saves-2-million By Bill Siwicki Healthcare IT News September 03, 2019Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, is a 287-bed non-profit teaching hospital with ambulatory care clinics that treat more than 250,000 patients every year,
THE PROBLEMChristopher Frenz, assistant vice president of information security at Interfaith, is a strong believer in testing security and empirically determining how secure an organization actually is.
By 2015, it was becoming clear to him that eventually a hospital was going to be hit by a ransomware attack. This sparked his interest in determining just how well Interfaith would be able to withstand an attack.
“One of the ways I approached this was simulating a mass malware outbreak within the hospital, using a custom developed script and the EICAR test string,” he explained. “Running the script attempted to copy and execute the EICAR test string on each PC within the organization to simulate the lateral movement of a threat within the hospital.
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