HIMSSCast: Web apps are ubiquitous in healthcare – and come with vulnerabilities
Healthcare IT News March 8, 2024
Advice for healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other security leaders on how best to protect their organizations from the vulnerabilities that lie within web apps, from Johannes Ullrich, dean of research at the SANS Technology Institute.
A web application takes advantage of standards developed for browsers to deliver information to users or other applications. Most of the processing tends to happen remotely, and the user’s browser is used to display the results.
One advantage of the standards developed to support applications in web browsers is that they now also are used for mobile applications and other modern technologies.
But there are many security vulnerabilities that come with these ubiquitous web apps in healthcare.
Johannes Ullrich is dean of research at the...