HIMSSCast: Web apps are ubiquitous in healthcare – and come with vulnerabilities

A web application takes advantage of standards developed for browsers to deliver information to users or other applications. Most of the processing tends to happen remotely, and the user's browser is used to display the results.

One advantage of the standards developed to support applications in web browsers is that they now also are used for mobile applications and other modern technologies.

But there are many security vulnerabilities that come with these ubiquitous web apps in healthcare.

Johannes Ullrich is …

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