Since its introduction by C5 Capital in March, the Alliance of expert firms to help protect the healthcare sector against cyberattacks during the Covid-19 crisis has been strengthened with more industry leaders joining.
Since March, C5 Capital has noted a ten-fold increase in cyberattacks, such as ransomware, on the sector, adding an additional threat to already-overburdened hospitals, clinics and research facilities.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently warned that more than 25,000 email addresses from its organisation and others related to its operations – such as the NHS and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US – had been compromised.
C5 Capital is a specialist investment firm that exclusively invests in the secure data ecosystem, including cybersecurity, AI, cloud and space. The experts now supporting The Cyber Alliance to Defend our Healthcare include ITC Secure, IronNet Cybersecurity, Haven Cyber Technologies, Enveil, 4iQ, Blue Cedar, Hazelcast, SAP NS2, Modex, Telos, OneVinn, TruSTAR, Privitar, Cynamics, The Global Cyber Centre by SOSA and Klaatu IT Security, as well as cybersecurity investment firm Gula Tech Adventures. Their combined experience and resources further enhance the Alliance’s powerful industry response to an unprecedented series of cyberattacks on a healthcare sector already under huge pressure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through collective defence, members of the Alliance are working together to protect healthcare workers on the frontline of the epidemic. Much of the Alliance’s work to date has focused on the onboarding of critical healthcare infrastructure to the C5 IronDome, which uses behavioural intelligence derived from cyber anomalies to detect potential threats. Other activity has ranged from providing network compromise assessments and additional monitoring of core systems, to offering surge capacity to overwhelmed Security Operations Centres and providing Blockchain solutions to safeguard against ransomware attacks.
This work is helping to ensure hospitals and clinics protect their internal systems and databases for patients, healthcare workers and volunteers. It is also enabling pharmaceutical research and development facilities to safeguard their work while developing a vaccine to fight the COVID-19 virus both safely and efficiently.
