The Unique Challenges of Cybersecurity at a Children'S Hospital: Q&Amp;A with Ciso Stoddard Manikin

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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, one of the nation's largest children's hospitals, was hit by a ransomware attack last month that demanded $17,000 in order to get its electronic health records back, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

The attack forced the hospital to temporarily stop accepting new patients and shut down its emergency room.

According to Becker's Hospital Review, which interviewed the hospital's chief information security officer, children's hospitals "must maintain the same level of cybersecurity protection as any adult health system that connects to the internet."

Ransomware attacks are particularly dangerous to children's hospitals, Stoddard Manikin tells Becker's, because the data they hold could be used to open new lines of credit.

"Also, children can often be more medically fragile, increasing the urgency to keep systems available," he says.

"Once symptoms present, staff can behave like human sensors in your overall ransomware detection program, so it's also important to train staff on how to report potential cybersecurity incidents like phishing messages or strange computer behavior," Manikin says.

"Even for an organization that pays the ransom, there is still the very real risk that criminals may sell your data and 'get paid twice' or simply expose the data," he adds.

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