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(Sponsored) Not only does Pure bake security into its products, it partners with data protection vendors to ensure its products work with those healthcare organizations are already using, says Josh Gluck, VP of Global Healthcare Technology Strategy.

(Sponsored) Managing security tools across multiple platforms is challenging, so there's an urgency to unify security processes and controls across all environments, says Pritesh Parekh, chief trust and security officer at Virtustream.

(Sponsored) Security can't be just an afterthought when building healthcare products, says Lawrence Huang, VP of product management at Cisco Meraki; it has to be a foundation for the way the products are built.

Longtime CIO Drex DeFord, now a strategic healthcare executive for CI Security, says health systems are in the cybercrime crosshairs – and describes the steps IT and security professionals should be taking now to shore up their defenses.

Parham Eftekhari, executive director of the Cybersecurity Collaborative, explains how intelligence sharing and collaborative best practices can help with risk mitigation as pandemic-era cyberattacks increase.

The mode of attack on UHS' IT systems appears to be ransomware, while Anthem was the victim of a sophisticated state-sponsored criminal attack group.

Outside-the-four-walls threats include makeshift triage units, but moving fast does not have to mean moving unwisely, says cybersecurity expert Randy Bradley.

(Sponsored) Organizations need to understand how they look through the eyes of an attacker and line up their defenses the same way that they're being attacked, says Ryan Kalember, executive vice president of cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint.

Healthcare IT News’ Bill Siwicki interviews Mansur Hasib, also known as “Dr. Cybersecurity,” and author of the book “Cybersecurity Leadership.” The two discuss what CIOs and CISOs must do during such crises as pandemics and hurricanes.

(Sponsored) Sonia Arista and Renee Tarun of Fortinet discuss cybersecurity for healthcare in a changing business landscape.

HIMSS Director of Privacy and Security Lee Kim offers some insights and advice for health systems as they try to defend against both the coronavirus pandemic and the opportunistic cyberattacks that are using it as cover to sow chaos.

The ubiquity of healthcare data collected by new internet connected and sensor-enabled health and medical devices (the Internet of Health Things) is a boon for providers and patients, but also increases cybersecurity attack vectors.