Cybersecurity for Healthcare and Medical Devices

Hospital IT and biomedical engineering staff, health administrators and managers, and clinicians who want to understand the cyber risks to patient care. No security background is needed.

No. Several lessons come from Professor Messer's free Security+ SY0-701 series because they explain general security ideas well, but the course is about healthcare and is not affiliated with CompTIA.

Yes. It covers the DPDP Act 2023 and DPDP Rules 2025 (most of whose duties apply from May 2027), and the CERT-In Directions of 2022 on reporting incidents, with HIPAA and GDPR for comparison. It is not legal advice; check current requirements with your legal team.

Yes. HICP is free, practical and written for health organisations of every size. Its threats and practices apply to any hospital, including in India.

About 6 hours of video lessons, notes and practice questions, plus about 10 hours if you do the optional project. You work at your own pace.

You prepare a 220-bed hospital in Coimbatore for ransomware as its new information security lead: a clinical asset inventory, a cyber risk register, an EHR downtime and first-hour procedure, a tabletop exercise report and a board summary. A sample pack shows each document.

Yes. Every module, the notes, the project and the final assessment. The only paid item is the certificate, if you want it.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you pass the final assessment, with a number anyone can verify on our site.

No. The lab is optional practice. You can skip it whenever you like, and it never blocks your progress, the final assessment or your certificate.

Yes. Every lab level for this course opens in your browser, free, with nothing to install.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹499 including GST for this beginner course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.

The Cybersecurity for Healthcare and Medical Devices course has 9 modules. It opens with "Why hospitals are targets", goes through "Ransomware in healthcare now", "Phishing and the people inside a hospital", "Patient data, privacy and clinical AI" and "Incident response in a hospital" and ends with "Final Assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Cybersecurity for Healthcare and Medical Devices course: Explain why hospitals are targeted, using WannaCry, AIIMS and Ascension; Describe modern ransomware and double extortion; Apply the five HICP threats and ten practices. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Cybersecurity for Healthcare and Medical Devices course, software: None required. A spreadsheet and a document editor for the practice tasks and the project. Hardware: none. The course itself is free.

Cybersecurity for Healthcare and Medical Devices is rated beginner. Beginner. For hospital IT and biomedical teams, health administrators, and clinicians with an interest in security. No security background is needed. It is written for hospital IT teams, clinical engineers and healthcare managers, and has 3h 9m of video lessons at your own pace.

Skills from the Cybersecurity for Healthcare and Medical Devices course (for example: explain why hospitals are targeted, using WannaCry, AIIMS and Ascension) are used in healthcare information security officer work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.