Cybersecurity Solutions – The FORESIGHT Project

Cybersecurity Solutions – The FORESIGHT Project The digitalisation of our society introduces both opportunities and risks . Organisations and businesses from all sectors are increasingly using and integrating IT systems and networking technologies, and thus are proportionally becoming more dependent on continued availability,…

Cybersecurity Solutions – The GUARD Project

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is already having a great impact in many areas, especially on the digital economy, where data plays a key role . As a result of such a digital transformation, novel products and services are moving to the digital domain, where they are expected to create, process, share and consume data. Recent…

Big news today!

We are excited to see our SecureHospitals.eu project listed in the European Commission Innovation Radar for our innovation in “… proactively identify cyber security-related training needs in health care professions”. Based on the analysis by independent experts involved in reviewing ongoing research and innovation projects the consortium has…

Call for Knowledge Articles!

We are inviting you to briefly present your project for the SecureHospitals.eu Online Platform. Please give us an overview of the following points: Project summary Outcomes of the project Your Solutions in the context of cybersecurity and if available to what extent the cybersecurity solutions have a positive effect on the healthcare…

Double as much infected hospitals

Even in the coronavirus period, healthcare facilities are exposed to computer attacks. Cybercriminals don't care that people can die from ransomware. We didn't really think much about it before. But now, we have found ourselves proud of them. We support them. We are grateful to have them. And for what they do for us. We are talking about…

Cyber-Attack on the hospital of Rudolf and Stefanie Benešov

A number of questions arise in connection with a cyber-attack on the hospital in Benešov. The attack resulted in a significant reduction in the operation of the medical facility and caused damage which was, in the end, estimated at almost 80 million Czech crowns. First of all, how did it actually happen? The exact method of the virus infection…

Common cybersecurity threats in healthcare

As our hospital centres go deeper into the digital transformation, new digital entry points to control arise. Each new technology that is adopted and each new user that uses the existing technology, is a new threat to the centre, therefore awareness and training are essential to achieve a safe environment. There are threats that a user cannot…

Minimum quality standard for cybersecurity training in healthcare

In order to combat cybersecurity attacks in healthcare centres, many organisations invest in security awareness training. However, without a shared feeling of responsibility for cyber risk mitigation throughout the organization and minimum quality standard, this training is likely to fall on deaf ears (BITSIGHT, 2020). Therefore, in order to…

Our MOOC is now available on Coursera!

Today we launched our SecureHospitals.eu MOOC “Massive Open Online Course for healthcare and social professionals” on Coursera. If you are looking for a summer activity and want to learn about cybersecurity and its technical and social aspects in a healthcare context you can now visit our online course on:…