Impact of NIS2 on cybersecurity in healthcare
The revision of the EU directive on increasing cybersecurity for critical infrastructures (NIS2) has brought the issue of cybersecurity even more into focus in many healthcare facilities. Because they are considered particularly worthy of protection. Confidentiality, integrity and availability of data are of central importance in the healthcare sector. This is where entire health processes and diagnoses, including therapy plans, are documented. Since every security breach carries the risk that medication plans will be manipulated or information will fall into the hands of third parties, cyber security is essential. The sensitive data is an extremely popular target for criminals, as was the case recently with the attack on...
