TY - GEN
T1 - Some Guidelines for Cybersecurity Governance in the Internet of Medical Things
AU - von Solms, Basie
AU - du Toit, Jaco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The Internet of Medical Things (IoMTs), which is basically a subset of the wider Internet of Things (IoTs), has become a core component of modern healthcare. All indications are that it will expand at great speed providing more sophisticated and interconnected health support to patients. However, it is well documented that there are big cybersecurity risks in the IoMTs. Managing this cybersecurity risks within this growing IoMTs in hospitals and other institutions, is of growing concern, and is causing serious worries. Cybersecurity Governance is the responsibility of the Board of Governors (Directors) of an Institution, and relates to the accountability, responsibility and oversight role the Board has, as part of good Corporate Governance, to ensure that the Institution is and stays resilient against cyberattacks and cybercrime. This paper motivates and the emphasises the general Cybersecurity Governance responsibilities of Boards of Governors in the IoMTs, provide some guidelines for such Governors and specifically investigates the question whether Cybersecurity Governance in the IoMTs adds any extra aspects which are maybe not present or not so apparent in Cybersecurity Governance in other areas.
AB - The Internet of Medical Things (IoMTs), which is basically a subset of the wider Internet of Things (IoTs), has become a core component of modern healthcare. All indications are that it will expand at great speed providing more sophisticated and interconnected health support to patients. However, it is well documented that there are big cybersecurity risks in the IoMTs. Managing this cybersecurity risks within this growing IoMTs in hospitals and other institutions, is of growing concern, and is causing serious worries. Cybersecurity Governance is the responsibility of the Board of Governors (Directors) of an Institution, and relates to the accountability, responsibility and oversight role the Board has, as part of good Corporate Governance, to ensure that the Institution is and stays resilient against cyberattacks and cybercrime. This paper motivates and the emphasises the general Cybersecurity Governance responsibilities of Boards of Governors in the IoMTs, provide some guidelines for such Governors and specifically investigates the question whether Cybersecurity Governance in the IoMTs adds any extra aspects which are maybe not present or not so apparent in Cybersecurity Governance in other areas.
KW - Cybersecurity
KW - Cybersecurity Governance
KW - Ethics
KW - Internet of Medical Things
KW - Medical Ecosystem
KW - Safety
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-37717-4_74
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-37717-4_74
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85174718895
SN - 9783031377167
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 1139
EP - 1148
BT - Intelligent Computing - Proceedings of the 2023 Computing Conference
A2 - Arai, Kohei
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - Proceedings of the Computing Conference 2023
Y2 - 22 June 2023 through 23 June 2023
ER -