Lessons learned of the WannaCry Ransomware Cyber Attack: One year later

by Rosa Siles | Dec 04, 2018 | Events | 0 comments

Persei Vivarium participated in the debate “Lessons learned of the WannaCry Ransomware Cyber Attack”, celebrated in Barcelona. The event was jointly organized by Asociación de Salud Digital and the Societat Catalana de Salut Digital. The event was held at the CAMFiC head office.

The focus of the session was to analize and share the lessons learned from that important Cyber Attack.

The main speakers were Tomás Roy, Strategy Director of the Centre de Seguretat de la Informació de Catalunya (CESICAT) and Oriol Rius, Social Hacker. The session was moderated by José Enrique Pérez Palacio, a lawyer with a wide experience in penal and ITC law.

The main lessons learned were:

Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks. These attacks are usually aimed at accessing, changing, or destroying sensitive information; extorting money from users; or interrupting normal business processes.
Effective cybersecurity measures are particularly challenging today, because there are more devices than people, and attackers are becoming more innovative.
It is not a question of “if” but “when” the next cyber attack occurs. The challenge we must face is about organizations and people.
People are the most important: cybersecurity is about all of us. Users must understand and comply with basic data security principles like choosing strong passwords, being wary of attachments in email, and backing up data.
All of us know the importance of ensuring that the health and care systems nationally, regionally and locally are equipped to withstand and respond to cyber attacks in an effective manner which minimises disruption to services and, most importantly, impact on patients.

The lessons learned show us that, together, we will strengthen the resilience and preparedness of the health and social care system against future cyber attacks.Organizations must have a framework for how they deal with both attempted and successful cyber attacks.

In this framework, Tomás Roy highlighted the importance of innovation, and that we need to be proactive in key areas such as #bigdata #blockchain #Realworlddata that accelerate and facilitate these processes.

To sum up, cybersecurity is proactive tool that creates value for the organizations. It’s a question for everyone to be involved in.

Related to this, our CTO, Miguel Cabañas considered: “Cibersecurity as a MUST. All organization should work on and we should not forget that it incluides not only technical measures but also organizational and processes measures. It’s a good recomendation that all the organizations should implement any methodology to enhance security policies following Deming cycle because it may help having a continuous improvement of all security measures”.

#cybersecurity #cyberattack #GDPR