The development of Internet cloud technology has made the network architecture more complex, the data interface exposure has expanded, and API data security governance has become an important module in the field of network security.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, smart medical care has been rapidly popularized and massive data has been accumulated. Efficient medical treatment is accompanied by the risk of medical data leakage. Data security governance in the medical industry has become the focus of attention in the epidemic environment.
. What is API
Gartner data shows that API security is the number one risk of data leakage, and 92% of data leakage comes from API business.
API defines the communication and data interaction between various components in the application by defining a set of functions, protocols, and data structures. Provides the capabilities of web applications, operating systems, databases, and computer software and hardware to external use in the form of interfaces.
API provides capabilities, and the caller does not need to access the source code or understand the internal working mechanism of the program. Using the API can easily realize application system connection and data transmission, carrying enterprise core business logic and sensitive data.
2. Reasons for frequent API problems
From the enterprise perspective, large-scale distributed systems and complex application architectures have brought about a rapid growth in the number of APIs. The R&D process built on the API-First concept, the extremely short iteration cycle has led to difficulty in tracking API changes, and the failure of traditional security testing/protection tools to converge API risks.
In addition, the API can directly reach data, and most of the basic vulnerabilities of the API have not been discovered, and cloud-native application APIs have become the main attack surface. These are the reasons for frequent API problems.
. The API in the medical system uses
The medical system has high dependence on APIs, and the hospital business, regulatory units, medical insurance payment and other interconnection ; medical alliance , medical community , telemedicine and other regional collaborative ; Internet hospitals, third-party payment, WeChat mini-programs and public account mobile applications use ; hemodialysis machines, infusion pump and other traditional medical equipment and trolleys, automatic medicine dispensing machines, surgical robots and other new mobile terminals are inseparable from APIs.
4. Medical industry API security risks
With the continuous advancement of cloudization in the medical industry, the data interface of medical institutions needs to integrate a large number of systems to realize the interaction between businesses. Smart hospitals are facing the Internet, and data is circulated in multiple systems such as bank payments, third-party payments, social security bureaus, and health bureaus. There are many systems in the hospital, the data types are complex, and there are many external interactions, and there are wide exposures to risks.
medical record data, patient personal information, etc. involve complex data interfaces. More and more personal data and sensitive data are on the cloud, which also means that more data interfaces will be exposed to the Internet. In addition, the data interface assets are difficult to sort out, and the system management situations such as system users’ unclear data security business status are all problems faced by smart hospitals in data security governance.
55. Medical industry API security governance
As a technology enterprise deeply engaged in the field of network security, Yixiang Technology can provide professional and efficient services for data security governance in the medical industry.
Faced with the problems and challenges of API data security governance in the medical industry, the security team of Yixiang Technology first sorted out the hospital system API, historical API, and the development API, and classification and hierarchical management of hospital data ; secondly, it identified abnormal behaviors such as hospital business scenarios, query, payment, registration, appointment registration, and other abnormal behaviors, effectively checked data abnormalities , blocking data leakage channels.In addition, the security team of Yixiang Technology can use technical means to manage hospital sensitive data and personal information identification, and blocks illegal requested data , effectively reducing the risk of data leakage and ensuring customer data security .
In addition to the API data security investigation, in the process of API security assessment and governance, the security situation monitoring of the application interface, and risk assessment of online services and upcoming businesses are carried out, and matching vulnerabilities are found in its own device vulnerability library based on network asset fingerprints. In addition to supplementing the vulnerability information that broke out on the Internet as soon as possible, it also contains a large number of vulnerability information discovered by internal security personnel in hospitals, such as a large number of host vulnerabilities, website vulnerabilities, component vulnerabilities, components, other vulnerabilities and other types of vulnerabilities, including file reading, information leakage, remote code execution, buffer overflow , etc.
detects and analyzes the application and framework of the target website under authorization. After confirming the target component, based on the component, finds a PoC (Vulnerability Verification Program) matching the component from the security capability library and conducts unaware threat detection on the target application.
In the future, Yixiang Technology will continue to focus on API data security governance, deepen its efforts in the field of network security, and help the digital security development of the medical industry through technology, and build a solid security fortress for the development of smart medical care.
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