The rapid rise and outbreak of COVID-19 has led to many temporary and makeshift treatment centers. These treatment centers will likely utilize remote-care devices and will be connected to their system networks. This poses a security concern as temporary hospitals are remote and sit outside of a defense-in-depth architecture.
The pop-up care centers are rife with cybersecurity vulnerabilities due to time constrainst and budgeting issues. The top level concern for hospital administrators are to provide for patients and staff members, and this would include PPE such as masks and growns, ventilators, patient care, and setting up testings. To help reduce risk, IT administrators could make sure that all software is updated and fully patched daily, as well as enabling two-factor authentication for accounts within the temporary care center.