WAVE OF CYBER ATTACK IN CANADA AND AROUND THE WORLD: IS YOUR CLINIC DATA SAFE?
The beginning of October 2018 was marked by a multitude of large-scale cyber attacks, affecting many Canadian companies including several restaurant chains such as Swiss Chalet, Harvey's, Milestones, Kelseys, Montana's, Bier Markt as well as East Side Mario. 's¹.
These companies have been affected by ransomware-type software
which has the particularity of blocking and encrypting all data
on computers or servers, thus preventing access to all information and
data. A single message is then displayed, you must pay between
15 and 35 bitcoins (1 bitcoin is worth around $ 8,000CAD) to recover your data
and the price increases by 0.5 bitcoin per day ...
In addition to the risk of paralysis of the company, it is
difficult to know the damage of an attack of this type in the medium and long
term. Indeed, how can we be sure that the encrypted data has not been
copied and will not be resold on the black market in a few months? What
consequence will a data leak from the customer file have on the reputation and
exemplary nature of the affected company?
WHO MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS TYPE OF CYBER
ATTACK?
Cybercriminals target businesses and organizations whose information and data is stored internally on locally hosted servers. In the case of Ryuk (the ransomware used for the attack in early October 2018), once they successfully infect the internal servers, they will be able to create a chain reaction encrypting all of the data on those servers, rendering unable to access information from company computers. She is then paralyzed while she finds a solution to their problems.
Health clinics and organizations are a prime target for cybercriminals, as the stored health data is particularly sensitive and important. In 2016, several British hospitals were paralyzed for several days following an attack of this type².
HOW THE "CLOUD" CAN LIMIT PROBLEMS.
Companies using “cloud” solutions for the management of their data
are less susceptible to this type of attack. As important
data is stored on servers external to the organization ,
the information benefits from additional protections designed
by experts and is the responsibility of the service providers.
In the event of a ransomware attack, the affected company, storing
part or all of its data in a secure cloud, will not be an attractive target for
hackers. The latter seeking only to encrypt sensitive data stored on local
servers, thus forcing their target to pay a ransom in bitcoins.
In the case of companies storing in the “cloud”, the data is not
within reach of hackers and cannot be taken hostage.
CI3, A SAFE “CLOUD” SOLUTION.
Your clinic data that you store on CI3 is protected and secure at
all times. A team of experts is dedicated to the security of your
information and protect and improve day after day the protection of your data
in the cloud. At CI3, we have set ourselves three main objectives for the
protection of your data:
·
0
data loss.
·
0
data breach.
·
0
loss of data integrity.
To do this, we have set up security and backup systems for your
data in order to always be in line with our objectives announced above:
·
Storage
on independent and geographically remote secure servers.
·
24/24
monitoring of server status
·
Backup
of your data every 24 hours kept for 15 days on several servers.
·
Good
practice in terms of IT development.
In the event of ransomware, a backup of your data will always be
accessible and will limit the impact of this type of attack on your
organization.
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