Dutch Cybersecurity companies are joining forces to protect healthcare institutions, including NFIR.
Hospitals and other care institutions are essential in the control of the coronavirus. Unfortunately, there are criminals who take advantage of the uncertain and difficult times and attack healthcare institutions digitally. For this reason, NFIR joins forces with other cyber security companies on the initiative of Cyberveilig Nederland to protect healthcare institutions against cyber criminals during this corona situation.
Hospitals or other care institutions whose acute care is at stake can place a request for help on the website www.Wijhelpenziekenhuizen.nl. The coalition of cyber security companies then divides the work among themselves and comes up with a tailor-made approach to guarantee the passage of care. NFIR considers it important that care institutions do not lose time during this difficult period to the problems caused by cybercriminals, but that they can continue to provide good care.
Cyber attacks doubled
Cybercriminals exploit the coronavirus outbreak to infect healthcare devices with malicious software or lock up IT systems and demand ransom. According to Reuters news agency, the WHO, the World Health Organization, has more than doubled in cyber attacks. Cybercriminals from the Maze hacker group also broke into Hammersmith Medicines Research, a British company that tests vaccines against the coronavirus. The cybercriminals stole data and then demanded ransom.
Cyber-veilig Nederland
Cyberveilig Nederland, the interest group for the Dutch cyber security sector, wants to give this initiative a broad impact. “In these times as a cyber security sector, it is important that we join forces and help the care sector to guarantee the continuity of care. By intervening quickly in the event of security incidents, we are doing our bit to help manage the corona crisis”. According to Petra Oldengarm, director of Cyberveilig Nederland.
NFIR
NFIR provides 100 hours of advice and technical expertise to restore the entire IT environment of a healthcare institution in a short period of time, should an incident occur during the corona crisis. NFIR is a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), which means that we specialise in Incident Response. NFIR is available to our clients 24/7 to map out and resolve any security incident. The aim of the incident response team is to minimise the impact of the cyber incident as quickly as possible so that the continuity of your organisation is no longer at stake.
The NFIR team consists of digital forensic investigators, ethical hackers and team leads who all have experience with incident response. After notification of the security incident, a team is put together that expresses its opinion. The size of the team depends on the type of cyber incident. Of course, all members of the team will work forensically during this process.
As a healthcare institution, do you have a cyber security incident caused by cyber criminals who abused the corona crisis? Please contact Stichting Z-CERT by phone via 033 – 737 0609 or by e-mail via cert@wijhelpenziekenhuizen.nl! NFIR likes to work with its CERT team to provide care institutions with adequate helveilig
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Our incident response team is available 24/7 to identify and resolve any cyber incident
What is NFIR's working method for Incident Response?
Triage
: the aim of this step is to identify the source(s) and affected devices and/or systems, set priorities based on these and determine the plan of approach for further research. At the same time, data is safeguarded in a forensic way for possible further investigation.
Containment
- Post incident activities: When the incident is resolved, a forensic investigation report is prepared. The report proposes solutions to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future. NFIR can also support and/or advise in the communication towards the Personal Data Authority, attorney at law and other parties involved.
How large is the Incident Response Team of NFIR?
The NFIR team consists of a team of digital forensic investigators, ethical hackers and team leads who have extensive experience with cyber security incident response. After notification of the security incident, a team is put together that expresses its opinion. The size of the team depends on the type of cyber incidents. Of course, all members of the team will work forensically during this process.
About NFIR
We stand for communicating in clear language with our customers. In this way we also report our findings. In addition, we aspire to the ‘measuring is knowing’ approach, which enables us to help you in a targeted way by means of various types of research. The approach also includes further development of our services. As a result, our services keep pace with changing practice.
NFIR stands for offering technical and organizational support, security services and training. With our knowledge and experience we can provide you with technical advice and advise you on the procedures and processes of information security. Enabling NFIR helps you to increase the resilience of your organisation’s cyber security in several areas.