iSchool Capstone

iCloudSec - Assessing security implications of cloud adoption in Healthcare

Project tags:

information assurance & cybersecurity

knowledge organization

Project poster

In 2015, over 112 million medical records were breached worth 12 million total cost from data breaches. Today, healthcare organizations understand the benefits of investing in cloud security but with constant change in security landscape, fear of data breach and loss of control over their data, they are concerned about adopting to cloud. To help these concerned organizations navigating safely in cloud, I have made an attempt to present to them a comprehensive list of security considerations to be taken into account for navigating safely in cloud. This would better enable them to focus on healthcare operations. Through this project, I have conducted an initial literature review on the topic and then interviewed security professionals and analyzed the overall risk benefit of using cloud in healthcare industry. My analysis covers the elements of patient data security, cloud vendor selection, industry standard security controls along with final results on key ways to assess security implications of cloud in healthcare.

Project participants:

Pamela Chakrabarty

MSIM