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Task Group No. 393 - Radiation Oncology Contingency Plan Against Cyberattacks (TG393)

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ActivitiesThe charges support the implementation of contingency plan for a radiation therapy clinic to resume patient treatments within a reasonable timeframe, following a cyberattack that leaves institutional computing and network services compromised and/or unavailable.
  1. Provide guidance in analyzing each clinical sub-system’s weaknesses and specifying clinical priority or impact of each clinical sub-system.
  2. Provide recommendations and perspective to review and to determine the readiness of the clinical systems against cyberattacks and to prepare for readiness of contingency plan for each clinical subsystem.
  3. Identify the nature and the severity of attacks and provide the minimum dataset to be prepared and recommendations on appropriate time period (hours or days) to recover from the attack per the levels of the attacks.
  4. Provide the data backup strategies for contingency plan of each clinical subsystem.
  5. Provide recommendations and strategy in rebuilding temporary clinical systems in case of cyberattacks and using the temporarily-rebuilt subsystems to resume radiotherapy treatment.
  6. Provide guidance and strategy to verify corrupted clinical system and to recover corrupted clinical data.
  7. Provide recommendations on how to restore patient data back to the main clinical system after restoration of institutional computation and network services.
  8. Provide guidance to individual clinical practices in designing their own site-specific contingency plan from minimal to comprehensive.
By-Laws:Not Referenced.Rules: Not Referenced.
Standing?This is not a standing committee.
Approved Date(s):3/30/2023 - 12/31/2027
Reviewable Draft Deadline:
Committee Keywords: No Keywords Entered
Chair

Baoshe Zhang
Task Group Chair

2026 Roster

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VOTING AppointmentsThere are 11 voting members.

up-to-datePeter Balter, PhD

8/10/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member
up-to-dateCharles M. Clements, MS

6/14/2023 - 12/31/2027 Member

up-to-dateBruce H. Curran, MEng

3/30/2023 - 12/31/2027 Task Group Vice Chair
up-to-dateSamantha G. Hedrick, PhD

8/10/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member

up-to-dateBrendan A. McClean, PhD

4/17/2023 - 12/31/2027 Task Group Vice Chair
up-to-dateBrett A. Miller, MS

3/30/2023 - 12/31/2027 Member

up-to-dateMarc Mlyn, MS

10/25/2024 - 12/31/2027 Member
up-to-dateReshma Munbodh, PhD

8/10/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member

up-to-dateMatthew C. Walb, PhD

8/10/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member
up-to-dateByong Yong Yi, PhD

3/30/2023 - 12/31/2027 Member

up-to-dateBaoshe Zhang

3/30/2023 - 12/31/2027 Task Group Chair
NON-VOTING AppointmentsThere are 3 non-voting members and guests.

up-to-dateJonas S. Andersson, PhD

4/27/2023 - 12/31/2026 Consultant (nonvoting)
up-to-dateRobert Clell Miller, MD

4/17/2023 - 12/31/2026 Consultant (nonvoting)

up-to-dateAdam R. Schoen, MS

4/17/2023 - 12/31/2026 Consultant - Varian (nonvoting)
HQ Team Appointed to CommitteeThere are 0 staff.



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