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COVID-19 and Cybersecurity: Finally, an Opportunity to Disrupt?

Ana Ferreira, Ricardo Cruz-Correia

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Article in JMIRx med. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Biosafety and biosecurity challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ana Ferreira *CINTESIS Faculty of Medicine University of Porto Porto Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0953-9411
Ricardo Cruz-Correia *CINTESIS Faculty of Medicine University of Porto Porto Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3764-5158

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 has challenged cybersecurity to meet the ultimate need of guaranteeing the privacy and security of human beings. Although personal and sensitive health data are needed to better understand, detect, and control the disease, many related cybersecurity challenges and vulnerabilities require further analysis and proper discussion. The aims of this viewpoint are to explore the consequences of COVID-19 on cybersecurity and health care as well as to foster awareness regarding the need for a change in paradigm on how cybersecurity is approached. Education and information technology literacy are important when they are suitably provided; however, they are certainly not a complete solution. Disruption needs to occur at the core of human-device interactions. Building trust, providing novel means to interact with technology (eg, digital humans), and supporting people-the most important cybersecurity asset-are only some of the recommendations for a more human and resilient approach to cybersecurity, during or after the pandemic.

Indexed as

challenges and disruptionCOVID-19cybersecuritydata protectionhealth dataprivacy

Identifiers

PMID34032816
PMCPMC8104279

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