Prevention of Cyber-Attacks and Privacy Breaches in Healthcare Sector

Periodically, analysts in the cybersecurity sector, collect and share relevant data about recent cybercrime trends. These insights cover many aspects of the current cyber-threat scenario, including actors involved, motivations of the attacks, attack vectors, consequences, targets, and so on. Many organizations leverage such data to prepare their risk management plans and cyber defense strategies. This paper illustrates a case study involving two sample structures, a university and its hospital that want to compare the data available in last cyber security reports with the one collected from their actual operating environment, with the aim of being aware of how the mentioned reports could be helpful in reducing cybersecurity risks.