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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.

To optimize for accuracy, we have to rethink the controls, technology and tools we use, and then we can start to scale into workflows, says Michael Coates, co-founder and CEO of Altitude Networks.

Brian Selfridge, partner, Meditology Services, discusses how true healthcare IT security is evolving into a broader conversation that needs to be had at all levels of an organization.

Stephanie Musso, chief HIPAA privacy officer at Stony Brook Medicine, talks about upcoming changes to HIPAA, new OCR enforcements of its right to access provision and more.