Cybersecurity Awareness Toolkit for Healthcare
This toolkit includes resources to educate your staff about actions they can take to be safer online. You will find links to government resources, training videos, and tools to share with your teams. A section also shares how healthcare organizations can take action to secure their networks and protect patients. Check back often as we will continue to add more resources.
CYBERSECURITY RESOURCES TO SHARE WITH YOUR TEAMS:
CISA Cybersecurity Awareness Resources
Cybersecurity Awareness Month Four Themes Infographic - this is a good one to print and post around your organization.
CISA's Four Steps to Staying Safe Online Webpage - share with your team and their families - includes videos on the four key themes
CISA's Cybersecurity Awareness 101 Powerpoint Presentation - use this to present one of the four themes each week to your team
National Cybersecurity Alliance Resources - visit their webpage
Hacked Accounts: What to Do Right Now - 8 min read
Think Intelligent About Artificial Intelligence - 4 min read
Phishing - 5 min read
Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Resources
Cybersecurity Roles in Healthcare Infographic - cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility.
Ransomware Simulation - does your team know what happens during a ransomware attack? - Share this 3-min video.
Blog Post: Safeguarding Healthcare: Implementing Key Cybersecurity Practices from CISA's Cybersecurity Awareness Month Blog Post: Recognizing Phishing, Updating Software, and Healthcare Cybersecurity Strategies
Suggestions for how to share this information with your teams:
- Hold Lunch & Learns and pick a few of the resources to review
- Assign a leader from each team to share the information
- Create a game with questions and answers - get creative - prizes always help engagement as well
- Print the infographic and other information and post them around your hospital
- Share the Cybersecurity Insider Program - anyone from your organization can join the program. Share the link and have them register for ongoing free educational resources and benefits.
CYBERSECURITY RESOURCES TO PROTECT YOUR NETWORKS AND PATIENTS:
Education for Your IT Teams and C-Suite - Advance Your Organizations Cybersecurity Posture
Become a Cybersecurity Insider: Join a program that provides ongoing monthly education, threat intelligence alerts, on-demand training, and access to special events.
Securing AI Systems in Healthcare - On-Demand webinar
Set Up or Update Your Medical Device Cybersecurity Program - utilize this field manual to define or update your medical device cybersecurity program.
HHS and CISA Cybersecurity Resources for Healthcare
Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices - outlines the healthcare sector's top threats and mitigation strategies.
HHS 405(d) Knowledge On Demand Resources - Get PowerPoint presentations and videos for training on topics like ransomware and attacks against medical devices.
HHS Health Industry Cybersecurity Practice (HICP):
- HICP Main Document (2023 Edition) - Managing Threats and Protecting Patients
- HICP Technical Vol 1 - Cybersecurity Practices for Small Healthcare Organizations
- HICP Technical Vol 2 - Cybersecurity Practices for Medium & Large Healthcare Organizations
- HICP's Best Practices - 10 Mitigating Practices Summary
CISA's Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) - a subset of cybersecurity practices to reduce cybersecurity risks to healthcare
HHS + CISA Video about how to utilize HICP and CPG together - 4 min
CISA Releases New Healthcare & Public Health Sector Cybersecurity Toolkit with Support of HHS - access the Toolkit here.
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