NIST Poised To Issue Cyber Security Guidelines To Assist the Hospitals

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is poised to issue new best practices guidelines for cybersecurity to assist the hospitals cope with threats, in accordance to Ronald Ross, NIST fellow, SecureWorld reported.

NIST currently gives a cybersecurity framework established for the federal government to help understand, select, and then implement security controls. Ross compared the framework to a massive catalog of privacy and security controls that can assist to safeguard an agency from hostile cyber attacks.

The forthcoming guidance will seek to assist the healthcare organizations address security even while specific things remain outside of their control, like operating systems or data bases. Ross told Healthcare IT, “The great way to describe the concept is like this: when you fly on an airplane or cross a bridge, you do so because you trust the airplanes we fly and the bridges we cross, you have confidence in the persons who designed and constructed them.” The guidance thus also will give best practices for building software and systems that are secure and trustworthy.