12 Aug You are the Chief Information Security Officer at your selected healthcare organization

• Research information on ransomware – how it works, major issues and attacks on healthcare organizations.
• You should respond to the following scenario and support your answers with sources and explanations:

You are the Chief Information Security Officer at your selected healthcare organization. Your health system has come under a ransomware attack in the last hour. Multiple users have reported ransom messages on their computers, and no one has been able to access the EHR system in the last 45 minutes. You are now receiving calls from the local media asking if there is a problem at the system.

• Your end product will be a 3 to 5 page, single-spaced MS Word Document (this will typically be between 1000-1500 words) that that provides responses to the following questions (This should be grammar-checked and consistently readable in APA style – title page and references do not count in page total):
  • Describe if you would pay the ransom ($500,000 in bitcoin) and why
  • How will you protect other systems?
  • What actions would you take to recover from the attack?
  • Who would you communicate with in what order and what would be your message?
  • Where would you look for help
• You may want to consider material from the following sources:
  • https://healthitsecurity.com/news/ransomware-resurgence-shows-gaps-in-health-it-security-planning (Links to an external site.)
  • https://www.cisa.gov/publication/ransomware-guide (Links to an external site.)
  • https://www.bdo.com/insights/industries/healthcare/preparing-for-and-responding-to-ransomware-attacks