Privacy & Security

The security vendor’s research also found that Internet of Things and medical devices are at the center of the storm.

Hosted in Washington by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the event aims to find ways to deploy the emerging technology in healthcare to solve issues such as identity management, data aggregation and more.

Infosec expert Stephen Cobb says chief information officers score high in conscientiousness and openness and low in neuroticism. And while the pipeline of upcoming CISOs is thin right now, today’s leaders are getting better at their job. 

The partnership is designed to give healthcare organizations the ability to deploy on-premises flash arrays supported by cloud infrastructure for hybrid cloud, backup and disaster recovery systems.

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Whether malicious or not, insiders remain a major threat to healthcare organizations, according to the monthly Protenus Breach Barometer.

The veteran healthcare technology leader urged executives to move faster with cloud migration and said that the big vendors spend a lot of time and money on information security.

The security specialist and TV star said he is very bullish on the big opportunities that hospitals and health systems have but also noted that new technologies bring new vulnerability and threat vectors. 

The risks are not simply that a device may be compromised for use in a DDoS or ransomware attack. An unsecured IoT device can provide access by the attack vector allowing entry into the wider network.

The networking giant said its Software-Defined Secure Network is an ecosystem healthcare organizations can use to protect against security threats.