Privileged target of computer hackers, health establishments will benefit from a “digital white plan” and new preparation exercises in 2023.
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After the major computer hacks suffered in recent months by the hospitals of Corbeil-Essonnes and Versailles, the government announced, Wednesday, December 21, the launch of a “vast preparation program” of health establishments at Cyberattacks. “The objective is that 100 % of the most priority health establishments have carried out new exercises by May 2023”, explain in a joint press release the interior ministers, Gérald Darmanin, of health, François Braun, And the Minister Digital Delegate, Jean-Noël Barrot.
“A digital white plan will be developed in the first quarter of 2023 to provide establishments with reflexes and practices to adopt if a cyber incident occurs”, such as the activation of a crisis unit or the evaluation of the damage caused by the Hackers, added the press release. This plan should make it possible to “pool the competent resources at each region in connection with regional health agencies”.
a thousand attacks in 2021
A “Task Force” responsible for building by March 2023 a new project of a massive multi -year cyber plan was also created. The South South Ile-de-France hospital center of Corbeil-Essonnes, in August, and the Versailles hospital center, at the beginning of December, were victims of cyber attacks by the Lockbit ransom, which seriously affected their activities and forced them to transfer patients Towards other hospitals.
In 2021, a thousand attacks on the ransomiciel were noted in France, according to the Ministry of the Interior, and around 260,000 legal proceedings related to the cyber were opened – which represents an increase of 20 % compared to At 2020. During attacks on public organizations, the “constant posture” of the State is not to pay ransoms, recall the ministers.