Healthcare

The State of Healthcare Cybersecurity and Compliance: Is HIPAA Helping or Hindering Cybersecurity Efforts

Nicholas Heesters - HHS  •   • 

An inside view of what HHS OCR is seeing on the healthcare sector privacy and security landscape, and what the agency has in the works to address those challenges. That includes: Insights from OCR's latest breach and compliance investigations of covered entities and BAs. An update on OCR's HIPAA enforcement...

Breach Trends Panel - Lessons from Wall of Shame - We've Been Breached. Now What?

Connie Barrera - Jackson Health System , Richard Conti - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia , Nicholas Heesters - HHS , Anahi Santiago - Christiana Care Health System  •   • 

Following the HHS OCR presentation, a panel of CISOs and regulatory and legal experts will dig into how major health data breach trends are changing, and why. For instance: What lessons can be learned from some of the latest breach trends, including the steady surge in reported hacker incidents Cybercriminals,...

Insider Threat Program: An Essential Component of Every Cybersecurity Program

Randy Trzeciak - CMU  •   • 

Some of the biggest health data breaches - including headliner Wall of Shame breaches in 2018 - are due to insiders who click on phishing emails, and fall for business email compromise scams. While there is also plenty of record snooping by insiders, healthcare also has its share of malicious bad actors looking to...

The State of Healthcare Information Security: Reactive Vs. Proactive

Greg Garcia - Public Health Sector Coordinating Council  •   • 

What's the state of healthcare information security, and how are the healthcare sector and government agencies working to address the increasingly complex cyber challenges? Our presenter provides insights into the latest efforts and hot topics, including: How the sector can implement key cyber recommendations from a...

Implementing Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) Cybersecurity Recommendations: Lessons from the Trenches

Greg Garcia - Public Health Sector Coordinating Council , Mark Jarrett - Northwell Health , Vito Sardanopoli - Member of HHS Cyber Task Force  •   • 

A panel of experts join keynoter Greg Garcia to dig into some of the most critical recommendations by the Department of Health and Human Services' cyber task force for improving the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare sector. The panel will discuss: The current state of one or more of the key imperatives, such...

Medical Devices: A Long Road Ahead to Security and Privacy

Sonia Arista - Fortinet , Kevin McDonald - Mayo Clinic , Dale Nordenberg, MD - Safety and Security Consortium , Anahi Santiago - Christiana Care Health System , Dr. Suzanne Schwartz - FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health  •   • 

Interconnected medical devices can pose tremendous risk to data security and patient safety. How can healthcare entities keep up with the ever growing list of vulnerabilities involving medical devices, and new emerging threats? A top FDA official provides an update on the state of medical device security, and FDA's...

Tackling Vendor Risk Management Challenges

Phil Curran - Cooper University Health Care , Mark Eggleston - Health Partners Plans , Brian Lancaster - University of Nebraska Medical Center , Mitch Parker - Indiana University Health System , Steven W. Teppler - Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C.  •   • 

Breaches and other cyber incidents involving business associates and other vendors can have a devastating impact. What can healthcare sector entities do to reduce and better manage those risks? Our panel of CISOs and other experts will explore: The growing risks posed by vendors Challenges involving cloud vendors...

The CISO's Role in 2019: Learn from Other Sectors

Vikrant Arora - Hospital for Special Surgery , Stephen R. Katz, CISSP - Merrill Lynch and Citi , Anahi Santiago - Christiana Care Health System  •   • 

Given current, turbulent conversations around physical and cybersecurity, it's hard to get an exact pulse on the state of the industry and where to start shoring up corporate processes to protect information. But with business and personal safety on the line, it's become increasingly important to be able to identify...

Inoculating Healthcare Against Cyberattacks

Ryan Witt - Proofpoint  •   • 

While the industry hasn't seen a high profile breach in some time, healthcare cyber attacks have become an ever present occurrence with more than one breach now being reported every day. And while the focus of cybercriminal activity has largely moved away from ransomware, people (and not just healthcare executives)...

Nine Common Security Risks for Healthcare and What You Can Do to Prevent Them

Chris Bowen - ClearDATA  •   • 

According to the 2017 Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) Data Breach Report, healthcare was the second most significant contributing industry to overall data breaches with 334 breaches reported. Data breaches are crippling to any business, but are extra hard on healthcare organizations, considering the vast amount...

The Mistakes I've Made: Lessons from a Healthcare CISO

Monique Kunkel - NTT DATA Services , Frank Negro - NTT DATA Services , Bruce Snell - NTT Security  •   • 

Learn how common Security Program mistakes occur, and real-life examples for how they can be prevented. The panel discussion, moderated by a former CIO and conducted by healthcare security professionals, will explore these topics and invite audience participation. Join us as we discuss: New insights into everyday...

Modern-Day DDoS Attack Trends and Target: Healthcare Organizations

Tom Bienkowski - Arbor Networks  •   • 

Are you sure you're adequately protected from the modern-day DDoS attack? This session will discuss findings from NETSCOUT Arbor's August 2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report which shows that DDoS attacks are not only increasing in frequency and complexity, but they are also routinely being used by hactivists,...

Security Education in Healthcare: What Truly Matters

Gretel Egan - Wombat Security, a division of Proofpoint  •   • 

It's no secret that the healthcare industry is increasingly under attack by cybercriminals. And risky end-user behaviors are only exacerbating the threat. Yet, user awareness training is always a challenge for organizations. How do you effectively train users to stop clicking on links or opening attachments? This...

Poised to Combat Cyber Threats - Gearing Up for What's Over the Horizon

Vikrant Arora - Hospital for Special Surgery , Connie Barrera - Jackson Health System , Jay Kramer - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith  •   • 

What are healthcare entities doing to better position themselves for battle in the evolving cyber threat landscape? CISOs discuss what they're doing with their SOC, SIEM, behavioral analytics, virtual desktops, endpoint protection, and more. In this session, panelists will discuss: The key vulnerabilities putting...

Blockchain: Hype or Hope for Protecting PHI?

Session In Development  • 

David Houlding - Microsoft  •   • 

Our expert will discuss the real potential for blockchain to bolster cybersecurity in healthcare, as well as help weed out some of the hype, including: Blockchain security strengths and weaknesses: what you can count on and where you need to bolster Risks and strategies to share data on a blockchain with a...