TY - GEN
T1 - Cybersecurity Governance in the Medical Ecosystem
T2 - Science and Information Conference, SAI 2024
AU - Von Solms, Sebastiaan
AU - du Toit, Jaco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Health institutions have started worldwide or are considering integrating the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) into their hospital environments. However, it is well documented that the IoMT is introducing severe cyber risks into the relevant environment. It is therefore the responsibility of the Board of Governors (BoGs), as part of their Corporate Governance oversight accountability, to ensure the cyber resilience of their health institutions during such integration. Furthermore, it is also well reported that BoGs are not always technically skilled, and often do not know where and how to start such oversight responsibilities. The purpose of this paper is to provide some basic readable background about the IoMT, and then offers a number of questions which the Board can ask to get some handle on and empower themselves on this oversight journey they are confronted with.
AB - Health institutions have started worldwide or are considering integrating the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) into their hospital environments. However, it is well documented that the IoMT is introducing severe cyber risks into the relevant environment. It is therefore the responsibility of the Board of Governors (BoGs), as part of their Corporate Governance oversight accountability, to ensure the cyber resilience of their health institutions during such integration. Furthermore, it is also well reported that BoGs are not always technically skilled, and often do not know where and how to start such oversight responsibilities. The purpose of this paper is to provide some basic readable background about the IoMT, and then offers a number of questions which the Board can ask to get some handle on and empower themselves on this oversight journey they are confronted with.
KW - Cybersecurity governance
KW - Information technology
KW - Internet of medical things
KW - Internet of things
KW - Operational technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85197382195&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-62277-9_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-62277-9_26
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85197382195
SN - 9783031622762
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 402
EP - 417
BT - Intelligent Computing - Proceedings of the 2024 Computing Conference
A2 - Arai, Kohei
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 11 July 2024 through 12 July 2024
ER -