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Trends in Security Information
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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Healthcare professionals and patients do not benefit fully from legal instruments and existing assistance initiatives designed to protect them
Healthcare professionals and patients do not benefit fully from legal instruments and existing assistance initiatives designed to protect them. • States are not availing themselves of the full extent of norms and laws available to protect healthcare. State actors have a variety of opportunities at their disposal to protect the healthcare sector. It is a nation state’s duty to ensure that its rule of law is respected and enforced within its jurisdiction. Nation states also have a duty to respect international law, including in cases of attacks performed by cyber means. Cooperation mechanisms also remain quite limited, despite the transnational nature of cyberspace. States have notably tread with caution in legal condemnation or prosecution of cyberattacks on healthcare or in conveying their interpretation of how international law applies, too often relying on political and technical attributions as a means of taking a stand against attacks. • Assistance initiatives lack visibility, scale and sustainability. As criminals and threat actors join forces to attack healthcare, numerous coalitions have been established to provide fast and free support to healthcare professionals. Be it civil society, industry or individuals, from professionals to volunteers from all parts of the world, they operate with an agile and targeted assistance model. Regrettably, these initiatives lack adequate visibility, scale and sustainability. The Cyber 4 Healthcare initiative has identified that healthcare professionals were found to have limited visibility of the assistance resources available to support them and may lack the technical know-how to request the most relevant support and/ or apply the recommendations.