Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Threats & Real-World Cases

WHEN CYBERSECURITY BECOMES REAL

Understanding the fundamentals of cybersecurity is important. But what happens when those defenses fail?

Healthcare organizations are attractive targets for cybercriminals. Malware can infiltrate systems. Ransomware can bring operations to a halt. Patient information can be compromised. And a cyberattack can quickly become much more than an IT problem—it can become an organizational, financial, and potentially patient-care problem.

This course takes you beyond the fundamentals and into the real world of healthcare cybersecurity. We'll look at the threats organizations face, how vulnerabilities are identified, the role of HIPAA, and actual cybersecurity incidents to understand what happened and what we can learn from them.

You don't need an IT or cybersecurity background. We'll tackle these subjects the same way we did the fundamentals—Plain & Simple.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

We'll explore some of today's most important cybersecurity threats and then connect those concepts to real-world examples.

You'll learn about:

• Malware and how malicious software can compromise systems

• Ransomware and why healthcare organizations are particularly vulnerable

• Cryptocurrency and its connection to ransomware

• HIPAA and the protection of healthcare information

• Vulnerabilities and how organizations identify weaknesses before attackers do

• Vulnerability and penetration testing

• The cyberattack on Boston Children's Hospital

• The CrowdStrike incident and what organizations can learn from it

• Practical lessons from real-world cybersecurity events

Rather than simply memorizing cybersecurity terminology, you'll begin to understand how these threats develop, why they matter, and what they mean for a healthcare organization.

CYBERSECURITY—PLAIN & SIMPLE

This course is designed for healthcare professionals, managers, students, and business professionals who want to better understand cybersecurity without becoming cybersecurity specialists.

If you've completed my course Cybersecurity in Healthcare: The Fundamentals, this is the natural next step. We'll build on those foundational concepts and move into threats, vulnerabilities, and real-world incidents. If you haven't taken the first course, that's okay too—H18 can stand on its own.

My approach is practical rather than highly technical. I spent 35 years designing, developing, and bringing medical technology to market, progressing from engineering leadership to VP of Marketing and ultimately president of a healthcare IT company. I've also spent many years teaching graduate-level university courses.

My goal is to help you move beyond knowing cybersecurity terminology to understanding what cyber threats can actually mean for a healthcare organization—and what we can learn when things go wrong.