Cybersecurity for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities : A Guide to Detection and Prevention Learn how to detect and prevent the hacking of medical equipment at hospitals and healthcare facilities. A cyber physical attack on building equipment pales in comparison to the damage a determined hacker can do if he she gains access to a medical grade network as a medical grade network controls the diagnostic treatment and life support equipment on which lives depend. News reports inform us how hackers strike hospitals with ransomware that prevents staff from accessing patient records or scheduling appointments. Unfortunately medical equipment also can be hacked and shut down remotely as a form of extortion. Criminal hackers will not ask for a $500 payment to unlock an MRI PET or CT scan or X ray machine—they will ask for much more. Litigation is bound to follow and the resulting punitive awards will drive up hospital insurance costs and healthcare costs in general. This will undoubtedly result in increased regulations for hospitals and higher costs for compliance. Unless hospitals and other healthcare facilities take the steps necessary to secure their medical grade networks they will be targeted for cyber physical attack possibly with life threatening consequences. Cybersecurity for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities is a wake up call explaining what hackers can do why hackers would target a hospital the way hackers research a target ways hackers can gain access to a medical grade network (cyber attack vectors) and ways hackers hope to monetize their cyber attack. By understanding and detecting the threats hospital administrators can take action now—before their hospital becomes the next victim. This book shows you how to: Determine how vulnerable hospital and healthcare building equipment is to cyber physical attack. Identify possible ways hackers can hack hospital and healthcare facility equipment. Recognize the cyber attack vectors—or paths by which a hacker or cracker can gain access to a computer a medical grade network server or expensive medical equipment in order to deliver a payload or malicious outcome. Detect and prevent man in the middle or denial of service cyber attacks. Detect and prevent hacking of the hospital database and hospital web application. Chapter 1: Hacker Reconnaissance of a Hospital Network Chapter 2: How Hackers Gain Access to a Hospital Network Chapter 3: Active Medical Device Cyber Attacks Chapter 4: Medical Facility Cyber Physical Attacks Chapter 5: Hospital Insider Threat Chapter 6: Detection of Cyber Attacks Chapter 7: Preventing Cyber Attacks Chapter 8: Cyber Attack Response and Recovery Planning Chapter 9: Appendix. Cyber Attack Response Procedures Template .