Ying He|Aliyu Aliyu|Mark Evans|Cunjin Luo
Health Care Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions Under the Climate of COVID-19: Scoping Review
University of Nottingham|De Montfort University|De Montfort University|Southwest Medical University|University of Essex
background covid19 challenged resilience health care information system affected ability achieve global goal health wellbeing pandemic resulted number recent cyberattacks hospitals pharmaceutical companies us department health human services world health organization partners others objective aim review identify key cybersecurity challenges solutions adapted health sector areas improvement needed counteract recent increases cyberattacks eg phishing campaigns ransomware attacks used attackers exploit vulnerabilities technology people introduced changes working practices response covid19 pandemic methods scoping review conducted searching two major scientific databases pubmed scopus using search formula covid healthcare cybersecurity reports news articles industry white papers also included related directly previously published works available sources time writing articles english published last decade included ie 20112020 order focus current issues challenges solutions results identified 9 main challenges cybersecurity 11 key solutions health care organizations adapted address challenges 4 key areas need strengthened terms cybersecurity capacity health sector also found prominent significant methods cyberattacks occurred pandemic related phishing ransomware distributed denialofservice attacks malware conclusions scoping review identified impactful methods cyberattacks targeted health sector covid19 pandemic well challenges cybersecurity solutions areas need improvement provided useful insights health sector cybersecurity issues covid19 pandemic well epidemics pandemics may materialize future