Hospitals plastered with password sticky notes
27 Jun 2016 at 01:56, Darren Pauli Medicos are so adept at mitigating security controls that their bypassing exploits have become official policy, a university-backed study has revealed.
The work finds that nurses, doctors, and other medical workers will so often bypass information security controls in a bid to administer rapid health care that the shortcuts are taught to other staff.
It is built on face to face and phone interviews with hundreds of medical workers, chief technology officers, and 19 security boffins by an academic team of Sean Smith and Vijay Kothari of Dartmouth College, Ross Koppela of the University of Pennsylvania, and Jim Blythe of the University of Southern California.
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