The Maturity Paradigm

In healthcare we have an insatiable appetite to adopt new technology

Should we be worried

About state-sponsored attacks against hospitals?

Security and the Board Need to Speak the Same Language

How security leaders speak to thier C-Suite and Board can make all the difference

Who'd want to be a CISO?

Challenging job, but increasingly well paid

Medical Tourism - Growing in Popularity

Safe, fun, and much, MUCH more cost-effecitive

The Changing Face of the Security Leader

The role is changing, but what does the future hold?

Cyber Risk Insurance Won't Save Your Reputation

Be careful what you purchase and for what reason

Converging Paths



Patient safety has always been a major concern for healthcare providers but never before has it been so inextricably linked with cybersecurity. This is a subject I have blogged about, lectured to students of healthcare and cybersecurity, and spoken about to audiences of senior healthcare leaders at conferences and summits all over the world.

It's a convergence that we all need to become familiar with as enterprise risks change across the industry and the threats to the business evolve as we increasingly digitize.

Today, I had the pleasure of sharing this message with the HIMSS Cybersecurity Community. A community of healthcare leaders, technologists and security professionals that do their best to make sure that your non-public information remains confidential, integral and available, and that the IT systems employed to diagnose, treat, and monitor you as a patient, do not become compromised by nefarious nation states or cyber criminal actors. The HIMSS Security Community does a great job of sharing information across thousands of providers globally, to help leaders protect their patients and their patient data.

We all know that the global healthcare industry has problems and needs all the help in can get at a time of aging populations, static budgets and increased cyber risk. What compounds these concerns is a long history of under funding for the day-to-day security of hospitals and clinics, and  the longer term maintenance and replacement of end of life IT systems.

This is a subject that I will be addressing in more detail with Jason Hawley, CIO and CISO at Yuma District Hospital at the HIMSS Annual Conference this year in Orlando on Monday February 11th. If you are planning to attend HIMSS19, please come along to the Security Forum and join us as we dig deeper into this subject.

For those able to attend my webinar today, many thanks and it was great to address many of your questions. For those unable to attend I have posted a link to the WebEx recording and to my presentation slides below.




Webinar Recording

Presentation