According to a news report, MGM New Bombay Hospital in Mumbai fell prey to a ransomware attack on Sunday. A hacker locked data in the hospital’s computer system and sent a web link demanding ransom in bitcoins to unlock it. It is said that the hospital staff would have clicked on a suspicious link through which the ransomware attack has happened. The recent attacks of ransomware which bought down health care facilities could happen anywhere tomorrow.
Healthcare, today, has evolved to provide real-time access for doctors and patients with a diagnosis of prognosis. Technology adoption has made easy for people to access healthcare solutions, which were earlier difficult to access or reach, such as Telemedicine and M-health has changed lives of many in rural India, where even basic medical facilities are lacking. Personal Healthcare Record has made it easy for people to have their complete medical history available at fingertips. This, in turn, helps healthcare providers for faster and correct diagnosis in cases of emergency to track and monitor patients on the go. Digitization has changed the way healthcare organizations from diagnostic labs, medical care or consultation work seamlessly in facilitating access to healthcare.
However, the perils of technology are the growing cyber threats that can cripple the organization and bring the whole facility down. Cyber-attacks such as APT and hacking steal the confidential data or medical records of millions of users and hold the organization to ransom or may manipulate for financial gains or sabotage.
eScan with its more than two decades of R&D has developed comprehensive and layered security solutions that are at par with global standard quality to protect and defend from any kind of cyber-attacks. eScan’s range of enterprise solutions like eScan Corporate, eScan Corporate 360 with MDM are designed to protect gateways to endpoints in a platform agnostic environment with the below-mentioned features of EPP:
- Central Management console for managing the complete network
- Data Leak Prevention (DLP)
- Patch Management
- Asset Management
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