The health service must immediately implement professional IT security solutions.

According to the current legal status, from August 1, 2017 (i.e. for a little more than a year), medical documentation will have to be kept only in an electronic company.

Although the date of entry into force of the provisions on electronic medical data of the "Act of April 28, 2011 on the information system in health care" has been postponed many times, and this may also be the case this time, we must take into account that this moment will inevitably is coming and will eventually come.

Undoubtedly, the implementation of the provisions of the Act and the ordinances of successive Health Ministers regarding electronic medical documentation imposes a gigantic and very responsible implementation task on the entire healthcare system. I really hope that the whole project will be successful. The consequence of launching electronic medical information systems will be increased requirements for the security of information systems in hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities.

There are several important places in medical information systems that can be vulnerable and vulnerable to cyber threats:

• Databases of personal data,
• Patient health databases,
• Life support systems and patient condition monitoring,
• HIS (Health Information Systems) in the medical and administrative part,
• Medical equipment,
• Other systems that may affect the implementation of key processes.

In January 2016, a spokesman for the Hospital in Ottawa reported that 4 of the nearly 10,000 computers in the hospital were attacked with software ransomware. This type of malware, after clicking on an attachment in an email, a link in an email or on a website, blocks files on the infected computer. After paying the ransom, the attack victim receives a key that enables the reopening of encrypted files. In the case of this attack, the hospital did not pay the ransom, and IT services wiped the contents of the disks and restored the data using backups. The hospital said the patient's data was not at risk.

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On Monday, April 4 Brocade Communications Systems announced its intention to acquire the company for $ 1.5 billion Ruckus Wireless. It seems that another strong player on the network solutions market is emerging before our eyes, able to compete with such powers as HPE and Cisco.

It is clear that the takeover of Aruba by HP, about what we wrote in March 2015, resulted in a change of the market leader in network technologies. This is indicated by the Gartner report published in September 2015, which we commented recently on our blog. In addition to the leading position, HPE draws attention strong weakening of Cisco's position and the grouping of many companies in the middle of the chart for the completeness of the solution vision. Brocade and Ruckus are also in the main group.

At this point, however, it should be noted that for some time Gartner has been treating the offer of solutions in the field of wired and wireless networks as a whole. This approach enables an objective evaluation of the comprehensive network offer and at the same time weakens the position of manufacturers with only LAN solutions or only WLAN solutions. In this context, the Brocade-Ruckus offer should be strongly shifted to the right in the near future. This is all the more likely as both companies have the flexibility and adaptability that are not appropriate for very large corporations such as HPE or Cisco.

About Brocade Communications
Brocade was founded in 1995 by Seth Neiman - former manager at Sun Microsystems and professional racing driver (!), Kumar Malavia - co-author of the Fiber Channel protocol specification, and Paul R. Bonderson, manager from Intel and Sun Microsystems.

Currently, Brocade Communications Systems in IT environments is associated primarily with high-quality, efficient solutions for SAN networks. As a leader in the implementation of the Fiber Channel protocol, the company sells its products both through its own network of partners, as well as under OEM agreements with major suppliers of IT solutions such as HPE, Dell, EMC, NetApp, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Lenovo or Oracle .
Beginning in 2008, after purchasing Foundry Networks, Brocade also offers a wide range of LAN and WAN devices. Such products include ultra-fast switches for data centers, enterprise-class switches and routers, load balancers. It should be mentioned that Brocade actively supports network virtualization solutions as well SDN (Software Defined Networking) by offering own products and participating in Open Networking Foundation and contribution to the work on the protocol OpenFlow.

We also invite you to read the article on our website dedicated to the product family Brocade FCS Fabric dedicated to data centers.

About Ruckus Wireless

Ruckus is an innovative company founded in 2004 by William Kish and Victor Shtrom. Since its inception, it has focused on providing indoor and outdoor wireless products from the "Smart WiFi" family for Internet providers and enterprises.

As the owner of many patents in the field of wireless voice, image and data transmission, Ruckus has made a significant contribution to the development of WLAN technology. Thanks to the use of adaptive matrix antennas, it was possible to increase the range and speed of data transmission, reduce interference effects and thus enable the transmission of delay-sensitive data and multimedia services using the standard 802.11 protocol.
It was Ruckus who invented and designed the technology of matrix antennas BeamFlexand then sold licenses to other producers to use beam forming technology. Beam forming technologies are now available on access points from many vendors such as Aruba, Cisco, Meru, and others.

In 2015, Ruckus was the first manufacturer to implement the 802.11ac Wave 2 standard in its access point long before others - it was the Ruckus ZoneFlex R710. According to data from Ruckus Wireless, this device provides transmission speed of 800Mbps at 2.4GHz and 1733Mbps at 5GHz.

Oh, it will be happening !!!