Conceptual Foundations of Comprehensive Cybersecurity for Critical Medical Services
Keywords:
healthcare cybersecurity, critical medical services, electronic health records (EHR), data protection, HIPAA, risk management, conceptual model, encryption, incident response, cyber threatsAbstract
The study is aimed at the formation of a methodological basis for a comprehensive system protecting critically important medical infrastructure. As research tools, systemic analysis and synthesis of the current scientific corpus of 2021–2025 devoted to cyber-protection models, risk management and regulatory-legal aspects of security in healthcare were employed. A multi-level conceptual model unifying technological, organizational and process components, thereby ensuring the resilience of the medical-information ecosystem, is described. Primary attention is given to the protection of EHR: mechanisms for the application of AES-256 encryption, role-based access control (RBAC), intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) and regulated incident response plans (IRP) are proposed. The results obtained demonstrate that the reliability of cyber-protection is determined not by isolated measures but by their synergistic combination, which includes proactive risk management, continuous threat monitoring and the development of an institutional culture of cybersecurity. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the systematization of disparate approaches and the development of unified foundations for constructing adaptive, scalable protection of medical data and services. The conclusions presented are addressed to managers of medical organizations, information security specialists, developers of medical IT systems and regulators involved in ensuring the resilience of the national healthcare system.
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