NIST Poised To Release Cyber Security Guidelines To Help Hospitals

New best practices are “imminent” according to one official.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is poised to release new best practices guidelines for cybersecurity to help hospitals cope with threats, according to Ronald Ross, NIST fellow, SecureWorld reported.

NIST currently offers a cybersecurityframework developed for the federal government to help understand, select, and then implement security controls. Ross compared the framework to a massive catalog of privacy and security controls that can help safeguard an organization from hostile cyber attacks.

The forthcoming guidance will seek to help healthcare organizations address security even while certain things remain outside of their control, like operating systems or data bases.Ross told Healthcare IT, “The best way to describe the concept is like this: when you fly on an airplane or cross a bridge, you do so because you trust the airplanes we fly and the bridges we cross, you have confidence in the people who designed and built them.” The guidance thus also will provide best practices for building software and systems that are secure and trustworthy. For the full article click here 

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