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The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Attacks on healthcare are causing direct harm to people and are a threat to health, globally
Attacking healthcare in a connected world is having a societal impact on a global scale. The multiplication of attacks on healthcare, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, is creating a global threat to health and human life.
Attacks on healthcare are causing direct harm to people and are a threat to health, globally.
• When healthcare providers are attacked, clearly it is people who suffer the consequences. Whereas the targets of attacks are most often portrayed as the healthcare organizations or service providers whose data or infrastructure was compromised, the direct victims of attacks are healthcare professionals and patients. In addition to the disruption of medical services and IT systems that have an immediate impact on the process of patient care, healthcare professionals and patients also suffer less visible impact including acute stress from their being in an incident response situation or psychological trauma and a sensation of powerlessness from having private information stolen by criminals.
• Attacking healthcare in a connected world is having a societal impact, globally. The multiplication of attacks on healthcare, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, is creating a global threat to health and human life. Considering that the phenomenon is under-researched, the documented impacts of converging threats raise immediate concern: disruption in patient care, loss of confidence in the sector’s cybersecurity, notably with an erosion in trust in the sector’s ability to protect patient data, while disinformation operations instill fear and distrust in the sector, causing confusion and harm throughout society