IIM-L team develops model to protect healthcare systems from cyber threats

Months after the country’s premier Delhi-based health institutions such as AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital cybersecurity was breached, a research team of the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) said it has developed a model to protect healthcare systems globally from cyber threats.

The research titled ‘Healthcare Cyber Risk Assessment Model’ evaluates and mitigates risks of cyberattacks thereby ensuring the security of patient data and the continuity of digital healthcare services for healthcare institutions. The team led by Prof. Arunabha Mukhopadhyay aims to tackle this issue by investigating the weak points in healthcare data security that hackers exploit.