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Trend Micro's Fernando Cardoso recommends cybersecurity best practices for healthcare organizations pursuing AI adoption, including remediating 'shadow AI' and other data blind spots.

Richard Staynings, professor and cybersecurity strategist, says data management basics are too often lacking, and policy regs still evolving. Whether dealing with automated decision support or adversarial deepfakes, healthcare orgs need both.

HealthEx CEO Dr. Priyanka Agarwal describes how identity verification technology makes it possible for patients to go to TEFCA and get their records, and weighs in on how the industry can rapidly scale Individual Access Services.

Hospitals need better visibility into the various AI-enabled tools coming onto their networks, and the ability to track new traffic patterns, security vulnerabilities and privacy risks, says Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera.

Getting ahead of cybersecurity challenges is a long road in healthcare, but comprehensive planning enabled DRH Health's IT team to evolve its defenses, says Roger Neal, VP and COO.

Adding new apps or employees can increase security vulnerabilities, but a "clear and open pipeline to communicate" about potential social engineering may help protect networks, says Ven Auvaa, ArmorPoint's information security director.

University of Warwick's Miroslaw Malinowski and European University's Konstantinos Katzis discuss Europe's MedSecurance project, which includes tools to help medical device developers assess and mitigate cyberthreats early in the design process.

Dr Cátia Sousa Pinto and Dr Tapani Piha of HIMSS' Digital Health Advisory Group for Europe say the group's annual meeting called for urgent action to strengthen European cybersecurity through training and a 10% digital budget allocation.

Cleveland Clinic London's Nana Odom says the rise of smart medical devices has created a complex digital healthcare ecosystem that's increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks as well as to insider threats from users.

Diana Ferro of Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital discusses the hospital’s participation in the CYLCOMED initiative, which has developed an AI cybersecurity toolbox to safeguard data collected from remote monitoring devices.

Thanos Arvanitidis of Europe's ENTRUST project says the initiative is working with partners across multiple sectors to develop a framework and trust assessment that will advance cybersecurity for connected medical devices.

Martin Gilje Jaatun of SINTEF Digital says the NEMECYS project has developed tools to help strengthen medical device security and has recommended improvements to the Medical Device Coordination Group's cybersecurity guidelines.