The Cyber Hygiene (CH) tool is a survey-based risk assessment methodology for raising cybersecurity and data privacy awareness of different employee groups in healthcare organisations. The CH methodology focuses on the gaps and needs of individual employee groups to identify the most effective strategy for managing cybersecurity and data privacy risks and recommend human-centric controls to implement the strategy.
The CH methodology is a unique solution that addresses a number of challenges in the healthcare sector, as well as other business verticals, and creates measurable impact by improving cybersecurity and data privacy preparedness.
The CH methodology comprises the following steps:
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Additional resources
Deliverable | D4.4 Cyber Hygiene (to be published) | |
Paper | Panda, Sakshyam, Emmanouil Panaousis, George Loukas, and Christos Laoudias. "Optimizing investments in cyber hygiene for protecting healthcare users." In From Lambda Calculus to Cybersecurity Through Program Analysis, pp. 268-291. Springer, Cham, 2020. | |
Asset page | Human-centric Cyber Hygiene on the Horizon Results Platform | |
Video | https://youtu.be/oYuXQ-M35xo | |
Online course | https://youtu.be/buhr8rQ0nHI |