VULNERABILITIES IN MEDICAL DEVICES, WHICH CAN GIVE CYBERCRIMINALS ACCESS TO PATIENTS’ PERSONAL INFORMATION Cover Image

VULNERABILITĂȚI ÎN DISPOZITIVE MEDICALE, CARE POT DA INFRACTORILOR CIBERNETICI ACCES LA INFORMAȚIILE PERSONALE ALE PACIENȚILOR
VULNERABILITIES IN MEDICAL DEVICES, WHICH CAN GIVE CYBERCRIMINALS ACCESS TO PATIENTS’ PERSONAL INFORMATION

Author(s): Violeta Ioana NAGÂȚ
Subject(s): Security and defense
Published by: Universitatea Crestina "Dimitrie Cantemir"
Keywords: he materialization of risks; cyber infrastructures and infrastructures such as those in the financial-banking; transport; health and defense sectors; national; cybercrime; cyber terrorism;

Summary/Abstract: The threats specific to the cyber space, are characterized by asymmetry and accentuated dynamics, as well as global character, which makes them difficult to identify and counteract by measures proportional to the impact of the materialization of the risks. Romania is currently facing threats from the cyber space against critical infrastructures, such as hospitals, given the increasing interdependence between cyber infrastructures and infrastructures such as those in the financial-banking, transport, health, and defense sectors. national. The globality of the cyber space is likely to amplify the risks to them, affecting to the same extent both the private and public sectors. Threats to the cyber space can be classified in several ways, but the most commonly used are those based on motivational factors and the impact on society. In this regard, we can consider cybercrime, cyber terrorism, as well as cyber warfare, having as source both state actors and non-state actors.

  • Issue Year: XI/2020
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 219-228
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Romanian