America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Unfortunately as far as healthcare goes it is not the healthiest in the world and this is a matter of concern to healthcare fraternity around the world. There is always the ongoing debate that America has the best healthcare system in the world along with state of the art technologies, yet there are a lot of inefficiencies in the system with lack of insurance and quality issues (Overview of the U.S. Health Care System). Healthcare delivery system comprises of many components like the healthcare professionals, institutions, and multiple type of resources that deliver various services for health – like medicines, laboratories, medical instruments, healthcare information systems and other …show more content…
Electronic health records and cloud based applications are some of the common ones used. Applications are virtualized and services are provided through virtual machines using applications like Citrix ZenApp. It is through these secure machines that the access is given to external associates and other users. Most of these applications are accessible across the web and are susceptible to malicious attacks. Due to this the healthcare industry and governments are doing their best to provide maximum possible security to web applications so that web security breaches are …show more content…
It was assumed that malicious attacks and threats would be prevented at the network level. However, it has been recently discovered that around half of the vulnerabilities of any application are found at the application layer. Information Assurance (IA) has become a focus area in software development. Proper development mechanisms are put in place to drive the security aspect in place like integrity, availability and confidentiality of the code. It tries to ensure that security concepts are used while developing products of a critical nature for financial, healthcare, defense and other areas.
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of software. OWASP advocates open standards in the Application Security space so that people can make informed decisions. The OWASP Top 10 Web application weaknesses aims to educate the information technology fraternity on the most common web application