Risk Management

Not only does Pure Storage 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.

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

This week's top stories include hackers using the SolarWinds platform to target the NIH in a large data breach, while vaccine preparedness gets a boost from the federal government and Apple Watch adds a new VO2 Max feature.

Chris Stouff, chief security officer at Armor Cloud Security, says since ransomware is the last step before threat actors get paid, Armor's approach to preventing damage to organizations is to "secure left," stopping the process earlier in the kill chain.

Natali Tshuva, CEO of IoT cybersecurity firm Sternum, discusses the risks that come with unsecured medical devices - and describes how patient trust can be restored with manufacturer transparency.

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

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

Many fear that a lack of cooperation between the two administrations could slow the rollout of vaccines and ultimately lead to more deaths.   

This week's top stories include the FBI and HHS warning hospitals of malicious actors looking to infect health systems on a large scale, and provider groups pushing back against Trump's claims that doctors are inflating COVID-19 numbers.

With the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they describe some of the techniques that may be used by foreign groups that could be targeting hundreds of health systems with ransomware.