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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2018.28.1.155

How to Cope with Ransomware in the Healthcare Industry  

Jeon, In-seok (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University)
Kim, Dong-won (PRIME College of interdisciplinary & Creative studies, konyang University)
Han, Keun-hee (Kunkouk University)
Abstract
As medical healthcare industry is growing up rapidly these days, providing various new healthcare service is considered carefully. Health information is considered to be more important than financial information; therefore, protecting health information becomes a very significant task. Ransomware is now targeting industry groups that have high information value. Especially, ransomware has grown in various ways since entering maturity in 2017. Healthcare industry is highly vulnerable to ransomeware since most healthcare organizations are configured in closed network with lack of malware protection. Only meeting the security criteria is not the solution. In the case of a successful attack, restoration process must be prepared to minimize damages as soon as possible. Ransomware is growing rapidly and becoming more complex that protection must be improved much faster. Based on ISO 27799 and 27002 standard, we extract and present security measures against advanced ransomware to maintain and manage healthcare system more effectively.
Keywords
healthcare industry; ransomware; malware; telemedicine; medical services;
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