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In a HIMSS23 preview, Children's National Hospital CISO Nate Lesser describes enlisting staff to find "force multipliers" across the enterprise – a system-wide strategy that boosts cybersecurity and reduces costs.

The Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook has long been a valuable security resource. In a preview of their HIMSS23 session, Margie Zuk and Penny Chase of MITRE share some updates to the guide.

In her upcoming HIMSS23 presentation, Aimee Cardwell, SVP and CISO at UnitedHealth Group, will focus on focusing on your network and personnel to build capabilities.

The IoT specification is meant to help ensure medical devices communicate with trust, identity, privacy, safety and security, says Florence Hudson, executive director of Columbia University's Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub in this HIMSS23 preview.

Anurag Lal, CEO of NetSfere and former director of the FCC's National Broadband Task Force, discusses the proportionate roles of people, process and technology as providers build defense strategies against a fast-changing threat landscape.

Jeffrey Vinson, CISO of Harris Health System, weighs in on the value of the situational awareness gained with IoMT security; and Jim Hyman, CEO of Ordr, explains how connected-device intelligence can help manage the volume of hospital networks.

Judy Jiao, CIO of National Government Services, discusses those and other issues: using data to close gaps in care, precision medicine advancements and more.

Robert Anderson, Jr., chairman and CEO of Cyber Defense Labs, discusses federal technology resources and policy, engaging the private sector and how cyberinsurance may respond to the rate and frequency of ransom payments.

Find out how organized crime shakes down healthcare – resulting in dangerous diversions of care, patient data compromise and loss of resources – with Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet.

In a preview of her keynote address at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at University of Pennsylvania explains why "data sharing is the new health ethic."

Researchers at Censinet and KLAS Research hope to align healthcare cybersecurity collaboration with a new benchmarking study for 2023.

Compliance regulations are defined baselines, but security goals often exceed them, and the disconnect is a common theme in healthcare, says Oscar Miranda, Chief Technology Officer for Healthcare at Armis.