Singapore is assessing the feasibility of rolling out virtual browsers to reduce the attack surface of healthcare systems, following a critical cybsecurity breach that compromised personal data of 1.5 million patients. Implementing virtual browsers would enable users to browse the web safely via quarantined servers, hence, reducing the number of potential attack points, said Singapore Health Minister Gan Kim Yong, in a statement delivered at a parliamentary session Monday. He said the ministry currently was studying and piloting the virtual browser system, alongside the rollout of advanced threat protection–the latter of which had been in the works before last month’s security breach, and was slated to complete by end of this month.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet
