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Resilience through compliance

By |2021-08-23T09:46:33+02:00 19 August, 2021|Interest, Norms & Standards|

Compliance is generally defined as the observance of requirements and laws resulting from various conditions. The term became established in the business world a long time ago. Entrepreneurs and business people have always had to comply with specifications in order to be able to sell their goods. Initially, these specifications were shaped by the behavior of the general public and the businessmen themselves. Compliance in today's sense is to be found above all after the establishment of trading companies, in which defaults had to be kept, in order to avoid consequences up to the insolvency. On the one hand, compliance serves as protection against damage to a company's reputation, but on the other hand, it protects against a loss of trust by the customer. For example, a scandal can change the view of a company and reduce trust with economic impairment and damage as a consequence. This creates [...]

Crisis management in hospitals

By |2021-08-18T09:42:13+02:00 13 August, 2021|Interest, News|

Incidents in hospitals are not uncommon. Statistics show that every day there is a cyberattack, every week a fire, every month an external threat (e.g., supply shortages), and every year a police incident that can present challenges to hospitals. The most recent example is the hacker attack on the University Hospital in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. The actual extortion letter was directed at the university in Düsseldorf, however the hospital also suffered massive impact. Due to the encryption of patient data, normal operations were no longer possible. As a result, patients of the ambulance service were diverted. One person died in the process, resulting in a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Through contact between the police and the blackmailers, the danger to people was pointed out, whereupon a decryption code was issued. Nevertheless, repercussions are still present today and normal operations have not yet been fully restored. This example shows [...]

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