https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/interfaith-s-zero-trust-network-protects-against-cyberattacks-saves-2-million
By Bill Siwicki
Healthcare IT News
September 03, 2019
Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, is a 287-bed non-profit
teaching hospital with ambulatory care clinics that treat more than 250,000
patients every year,
THE PROBLEM
Christopher Frenz, assistant vice president of information security at
Interfaith, is a strong believer in testing security and empirically
determining how secure an organization actually is.
By 2015, it was becoming clear to him that eventually a hospital was going to
be hit by a ransomware attack. This sparked his interest in determining just
how well Interfaith would be able to withstand an attack.
“One of the ways I approached this was simulating a mass malware outbreak
within the hospital, using a custom developed script and the EICAR test
string,” he explained. “Running the script attempted to copy and execute the
EICAR test string on each PC within the organization to simulate the lateral
movement of a threat within the hospital.
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