YISROEL MIRSKY

Senior Academic

DIcom images have been hacked! Now what?

Benoit Desjardins, Yisroel Mirsky, Markel Picado Ortiz, Zeev Glozman, Lawrence Tarbox, Robert Horn, Steven C. Horii

OBJECTIVE. As health care moves into a new era of increasing information vulnerability, radiologists should understand that they may be using systems that are exposed to altered data or data that contain malicious elements. This article explains the vulnerabilities of DICOM images and discusses requirements to properly secure these images from cyberattacks. CONCLUSION. There is an important need to properly secure DICOM images from attacks and tampering. The solutions described in this article will go a long way to achieving this goal.

Publication language English
Pages 727-735
Journal American Journal of Roentgenology
Volume 214
Issue number 4
Publication status Published - 01.01.2020

Keywords

Confidentiality
DICOM
Encryption
Integrity
Mitigation
Security
Vulnerabilities

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Access to Document
10.2214/AJR.19.21958
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