"The FBI aggressively investigates all potential threats to public and private sector systems," said the agency in a statement.
The US-CERT advisory, which was not made public, stated: "The level of sophistication and the scope of these cyber security incidents indicate that they are coordinated and targeted at private sector systems".
Despite more than a decade of warnings and fitful efforts, both governmental and private sector systems are at serious risk.
Regardless of service sector or clientele, any initiative aimed at changing public sector systems of care requires careful consideration of potentially challenging factors that commonly impact implementation efforts.
In the government sector, systems that self-monitor government spending, set targets and improve benchmarking could save huge sums and help prevent businesses or special interests from ripping off government at all levels.
The first key finding from our report -- which may be the most important -- is that private sector distribution systems have better data than public sector systems for health products.
"The compromise of public- and private-sector systems is something we take very seriously, and the FBI will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace".
SCADA is short for supervisory control and data acquisition, the automated computer programs that run so many government and private sector systems, including dams, oil refineries, the power grid, utility companies and even steelmills like the one in Germany that reportedly was recently hacked.
Arrangements with private sector logistics systems to ensure the availability of critical commodities in the community may be possible where public sector systems are unable or unwilling to include CHWs in their distribution networks.
In many developing countries, even simple laboratory tests, such as leukocyte counts, are often not measured because neither public sector systems nor patients can afford them.
