We instinctively grasp the ocean’s depth, and the difference between surfing waves, offshore snorkeling and deep diving. Most of us are hardly aware that the World Wide Web works in the same way. Though a random Google search can return seemingly endless results, surfing this vast accessible data is just scratching the surface. In fact, the visible online content is called theof the internet.
When a journalist asked Willie Sutton, the infamous American bank robber, why he targeted banks, he replied “because that’s where the money is.” Whether he actually said this or not, it later transformed into Sutton’s Law, a term used in medical schools to educate young physicians to first consider the most obvious diagnosis . Somewhat ironically, this seems to be the current answer to the healthcare-targeted cyberattacks as well.
Given these vulnerabilities, health-oriented cybersecurity solutions are crucially required, should be regulatory enforced and financially encouraged. Healthcare organizations are generally known to be late tech adaptors, with innovative solutions generally taking time to implement in everyday clinical practice. Innovative cybersecurity solutions cannot fall into the same category, as there is no acceptable status quo to maintain, but only an hourglass until the next attack.