Reality or just entertaining TV? Cyber experts dig into the Good Doctor's ransomware episode

Reality or just entertaining TV? Cyber experts dig into the Good Doctor's ransomware episode

On last Monday’s episode of “The Good Doctor,” Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) interrupts his girlfriend Lea Dilallo (Paige Spara), the hospital’s IT director, as she investigates a ransomware attack on the health care facility’s network. (ABC/Jeff Weddell)

On the ABC medical drama “The Good Doctor,” the surgeons at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital constantly find themselves making life-or-death ethical and medical decisions.


But last Monday night, when the facility was infected with a ransomware program, the hospital staffers were forced to make another critical choice: Pay or don’t pay?


The premise was, as they often say in television, ripped from the headlines.


Of course, boiling down the intricacies of a hospital ransomware incident into an hour-long drama is no easy task. But the season-four episode “Decrypt” did capture many of the key elements that play into an attack scenario, including incident response, the role of cyber insurance agencies, and the ethics of paying.


SC Media asked two cyber experts with health care experience for their own take on which parts of the episode – ..

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