Temporary hospitals are rife with cybersecurity vulnerabilities

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By Nathan Eddy
Healthcare IT News
April 22, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak has led to a series of rapidly established 
medical-treatment units the world over, which will be utilizing remote-care 
devices that lack proper protection. The situation gives hackers more 
opportunities to perpetrate attacks.

They could also infiltrate these devices to steal a patient's personal health 
information, causing complications for both the users of these devices and the 
healthcare providers themselves.

Temporary medical units carry a unique set of vulnerabilities due to the fact 
they are remote and sit outside of a defense-in-depth architecture. Because of 
the very nature of their purpose – to care for patients in a time of crisis – 
IT security is naturally lower on the priority list.

"They are being set up quite quickly with constrained budgets, and the budget 
for those is not on IT, it's on PPE, patient care, getting testing set up, 
everything a center should be focused on during this crisis," Tom Burt, 
corporate vice president of Microsoft Customer Security & Trust, told 
Healthcare IT News.

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