Privacy & Security Forum Boston 2016

Cloud computing and the Internet of Things has changed the security landscape and many organizations do not yet understand how to apply insights to the business. And then there’s the challenge of getting patients to adopt new tools. 

Tony Sager, senior vice president at the Center for Internet Security, promised to help simplify security – if not necessarily make it easy – at the HIMSS Health Privacy Forum.

Executives at Christiana and Penn Medicine have become advocates for security work. IT professionals shed light on what made that transformation work.

There's no one right way to set up a robust and workable cybersecurity program. But there are some key best practices to follow.

New skill set needs, old business associates and large data hosts becoming attractive targets top the list of chief information security officers. 

Skip market share leaders. Instead, pinpointing emerging technologies enables healthcare organizations to get cutting-edge technologies for a song. Just not without some degree of risk. 

Cyberattacks that influence healthcare stocks could cause long-term damage to providers and yield big profits to criminals, according to Scott Borg of the U.S. Cyberconsequences unit. 

Healthcare tops the list for ‘losing stuff’ and the ratio of incidents to breaches, Joel Brenner said Monday during the HIMSS Privacy & Security Forum in Boston.

Experts will convene at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News event to discuss best practices for cybersecurity, fending off attackers, sharing threat intelligence, learning from the dark web, grappling with budget realities and more. 

John Houston calls on cloud providers to be more transparent about their security offerings and to support standards such as HITRUST.