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Cybersecurity for Healthcare Staff: Phishing, Ransomware and Devices

The attacks that actually reach healthcare staff, and the habits that stop them.

foundation150 min5 lessons
Cybersecurity for Healthcare Staff: Phishing, Ransomware and Devices

What you'll learn

  • Identify indicators of phishing in a described message
  • Apply appropriate authentication practice to a given scenario
  • Describe the clinical consequences of a ransomware outage
  • Recognise device and removable-media risks in a described unit
  • Apply safe practice to a shared workstation situation
  • Plan clinical continuity actions for a systems downtime event

Course content

5 modules · 5 lessons

1. Why Healthcare Is Targeted
  • Why Healthcare Is TargetedPreview30m
2. Phishing and Social Engineering
  • Phishing and Social Engineering30m
3. Credentials and Access
  • Credentials and Access30m
4. Ransomware and Devices
  • Ransomware and Devices30m
5. Working Through Downtime
  • Working Through Downtime30m