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Shakira Brown, CEO of SMB Strategic Media, says to focus on business value, such as lowering costs, improving productivity, and increasing revenue when trying to get executive buy-in for cybersecurity funding.

Sentara Health VP and CISO Dan Bowden discusses how the hospital is preparing for consumerism and value-based care by building apps and tools in the cloud.

Suzanne Schwartz, Associate Director for Science and Strategic Partnerships at the FDA, shared insights and advice on medical device security, including cybersecurity attack response and best practices for CIOs and CTOs.

Jane Harper, Director Privacy & Security Risk Management at Henry Ford Health System, discusses how third party risk management should be viewed like a romantic relationship – from the dating stage through the prenup, marriage, and even divorce.

Developing a better link between cybersecurity and patient-facing services is what Dan Taylor, director of security of NHS Digital, believes is a top priority – a good cybersecurity strategy focused on people.

Brian Selfridge, partner at IT Risk Management for Meditology, also explains the evolving role of infosec leaders in the healthcare sector – including third-party vendor management.

Johns Hopkins Medicine CISO Darren Lacey shares his thoughts on the sector’s inherent problems, ransomware, remaining positive amid those threats and ways to keep up with hackers.

Despite the healthcare sector’s awareness of medical device flaws, UC San Diego researcher, emergency medicine provider Christian Dameff, says it is more about retaining patient trust and ensure the technology doesn’t fail.

Chad Wilson, director of information security at Children’s National, explains how timely access to applications in a healthcare setting is measured in seconds so the balance between usability and security is a big challenge.

Theresa Payton, president and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, explains how to avoid digital disasters with a segmentation strategy that includes on-going testing with data, equipment and third-party vendors to put security assumptions to the test.

Kamal Obbad, co-founder and CEO of Nebula Genomics, is working to help consumers understand consent and the risks to consider before giving someone access to their data based on a blockchain model.

Aashima Gupta, global head of Health Solutions at Google Cloud, talks about Google’s approach to technology enabling infrastructure with healthcare industry standards to allows organizations to have more time to innovate.