The adoption of a Cyber Security Framework in a health care environment (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED As in any other fields, the healthcare industry is prone to cyber threats. Every day, hospitals need to ensure that the informations about patients are adequately secure. Currently, CIOs and CISOs are trying to protect their departments from security matters. It is crucial to adopt appropriate measures to deal with risk management and business continuity. Focus of this paper is to review some of the common standards and frameworks used by healthcare organizations to face challenges of a Cyber Security. Furthermore, we highlight advantages and disadvantages of information security standards as ISO/IEC 27799, HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST CSF and GDPR comparing with each other.