CYBERSECURITY
Cyber Awareness In 2017, a worm tried to devour the Internet. The WannaCry ransomware
infection), having documented and tested
cryptoworm targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by
response protocols, and possibly the
encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The
most important, providing user education
WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm infected hundreds of thousands of computers on a
about phishing scams and social engineer-
massive, global scale, including many healthcare organizations.
ing techniques became priorities.” The Journal of Healthcare Contracting (JHC) spoke to several industry stake-
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“Cyberattacks in 2017 provided
weakest spots of the hospital networks
holders about cybersecurity trends,
some extremely valuable lessons learned
and forced many healthcare systems to
including best practices, developing a
for hospital systems,” said Terry Moon,
reevaluate their security posture, disaster
security strategy, screening for the best
assistant vice president of strategic sourc-
recovery procedures and user education
products and services, and the supply
ing, IT and cybersecurity for HealthTrust.
policies. The awareness of having good
chain’s role in preventing or responding
“Namely, it provided a view into the
backups (segmented to be isolated from
to cyberattacks.
April 2020 | The Journal of Healthcare Contracting
