The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a wave of cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector, including against hospitals, doctors, patients, medical companies, supply chains, universities, research laboratories, and public health organizations at different levels of jurisdiction and across the public and private sectors. Despite these concerns, cybersecurity in Canadian healthcare is significantly understudied. This article uses a series of illustrative examples to highlight the challenges, outcomes, and solutions Canada might consider in addressing healthcare cybersecurity. The article explores the various rationales by which Canadian healthcare may be targeted, unpacks several prominent types of cyberattack used against the healthcare sector, identifies the different malicious actors motivated to conduct such attacks, provides insights derived from three empirical cases of healthcare cyberattack (Boston Children’s Hospital [2014], Anthem [2015], National Health Service [2017]), and concludes with lessons for a Canadian response to healthcare cybersecurity from several international perspectives (e.g., Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Norway, and the Netherlands).

COVID-19 大流行引发了一波针对医疗保健行业的网络攻击，包括针对不同司法管辖区和公众的医院、医生、患者、医疗公司、供应链、大学、研究实验室和公共卫生组织，以及私营部门。尽管存在这些担忧，但加拿大医疗保健中的网络安全仍然没有得到充分研究。本文使用一系列说明性示例来强调加拿大在解决医疗保健网络安全方面可能考虑的挑战、结果和解决方案。本文探讨了加拿大医疗保健可能成为目标的各种理由，揭示了针对医疗保健部门的几种主要网络攻击类型，确定了有动机进行此类攻击的不同恶意行为者，