In 2020, no less than 27 attacks affected French hospitals. Between January and May 2021, the health sector had “one cyberattack per week”recalled theDigital health agency at the time. Since then, the situation has hardly improved with two large-scale hacks having recently targeted the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital (August 21) and the Versailles hospital (December 3), requiring the transfer of certain patients in poor condition. criticism towards other establishments…
The goal of cybercriminals? Block the information systems of healthcare establishments to demand a ransom, exfiltrate data to resell them…
Vincent Croisile, security expert at the ANS, returned, for PharminLink, the Roche laboratory’s information platform for hospital pharmacists, to the different types of cyberattacks, their vectors, their risks and the means of protecting against them by health institution.
An observation and advice intended here for hospital pharmacists but which are just as relevant for all health actors, in the city as in the hospital.
An interview carried out by the team of journalists of thePi+ agencywhich also feeds the Health Actors Watch on a daily basis!