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Julian M. Goldman, medical director of biomedical engineering at Partners HealthCare System, explains the challenges of creating medical device interoperability and how hospitals and health organizations can pre-plan for cybersecurity attacks.

Deep Dive: In the first of this four-part series, healthcare cybersecurity veterans discuss the major risks facing today's healthcare organizations, and why protecting sensitive data and systems is a vital step in providing care.

Medical devices and data privacy are two huge cybersecurity issues the healthcare industry is facing, and a one-size-fits-all approach is not the solution, says Julio Vivero, business partner at GMV.

Ronald Petru, CMIO at Radboudumc in the Netherlands, says that organizations need to inform their workforce about cybersecurity risks, while also ensuring that a proportional investment is made into security to ensure risks are mitigated.

All stakeholders, including government agencies and suppliers, need to help ensure that cybersecurity is taken seriously and acknowledge potential risks to outcomes, according to Saif Abed, MD, founding partner of AbedGraham Healthcare Strategies.

The big opportunities are protecting against today's top threats, notably ransomware, IP protection, and Dark Web PII challenges against HIPAA, according to Eric Marterella, CRO, Safeguard Cyber.

42Crunch CEO Jacques Declas says that he's hoping security will become part and parcel of the development process because of the healthcare industry's specific requirements.

Bugcrowd Chief Security Officer David Baker on the power of sharing information about bug bounty efforts to auditors for penetration testing, coverage analysis, remediation, and more.

Cryptoloc Technology Founder Jamie Wilson discusses the limitations of blockchain, including its inability to give privacy back to the consumer and the speed of transactions.

Richard Staynings, an independent executive security leader, says that the concept of keeping patients safe should go beyond infections and falls to include protecting their data from security breaches.

BitSight Vice President Jacob Olcott says that with cyberattackers aware of the opportunities business associates create for them, healthcare organizations need to assess and monitor business relationships.

Cradlepoint CSO Todd Kelly discusses using mobile and IoT devices to bring better healthcare delivery to the edge of networks as 5G becomes more prolific in the next several years.