Healthcare Cybersecurity Foundation

Protecting the healthcare ecosystem through cybersecurity research

The Healthcare Cybersecurity Foundation’s mission is to protect the healthcare ecosystem through cybersecurity solutions that safeguard patient data, secure critical medical systems, and ensure uninterrupted healthcare operations.

What we do

Our primary activity is fundamental research on healthcare cybersecurity. All of our research is published in scientific venues, free and open to the public.

The work is conducted in full compliance with HIPAA privacy and security regulations and is performed in coordination with healthcare administrators, computer scientists, doctors, nurses, and economists. Results are published in peer-reviewed top conferences such as those hosted by IEEE and ACM.

More about the Foundation

Attendees of the HealthSec 2025 workshop gathered in front of the workshop title slide
Attendees of the HealthSec 2025 workshop, held at ACSAC 2025.

HealthSec workshops

The Foundation’s community gathers each year at the “Cybersecurity in Healthcare” (HealthSec) workshop.

Recent publications

  1. “Cybersecurity Ratings to Support Domain-Specific Financial Decisions: Applications to National Infrastructures, Cyberinsurance, Gordon-Loeb Model, and NPV Analysis.” W. Yurcik, G. Pluta, J. Vieira, and F. Miranda. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), June 2026. Paper (PDF)
  2. “Cybersecurity in Healthcare.” Proceedings of the 1st Annual HealthSec Workshop, W. Yurcik (ed.). Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 2716. Springer Nature, 2026. Springer Link
  3. “Continuous Monitoring of Cybersecurity in U.S. Rural Hospitals.” W. Yurcik et al. ACSAC Workshops (HealthSec), 2025. DOI

All publications