Info Risk Today Podcast

Securing an organization often requires making fast decisions, said Tom Corn of Ontinue, and AI can gather information that you can use to answer the questions you have about how to handle a security problem. Corn discusses operationalizing an AI-first approach to security.

Implementing a zero trust security approach is critical to avoid the types of major IT disruptions and massive data compromises seen in recent cyberattacks that affected the healthcare, public health and government sectors, said Clinton McCarty, CISO at National Government Services.

Red teaming is not effective for evaluating the efficacy of preventative or detective security controls, said Jared Atkinson of Specter Ops, but purple teaming is. Purple teaming as "the evaluation of security control efficacy through atomic testing, using deliberately selected test cases."

Developers are using more and more open-source code because they "want to move fast," said Cycode's Lotem Guy. But the speed of development and the continuous deployment that follows means security teams have to catch up to the fast-moving development life cycle.

Acronis President Gaidar Magdanurov discusses the need for immutable backups in the current threat landscape and highlights the benefits of integrating security measures with backup systems to facilitate automated recovery from ransomware attacks and minimize downtime.

Payment fraud is the top risk to companies across the globe. Business email compromise is continually on the rise. Johnny Deutsch, co-founder and CEO of B2B payments protection company Creednz, discusses the need to integrate security into financial processes.

Artificial intelligence technologies offer tremendous promise in healthcare, but it's crucial for organizations to carefully assess the complex data privacy concerns involved with different types of AI products and deployments, said Karen Habercoss, chief privacy officer at UChicago Medicine.

The chaos experienced by thousands of healthcare organizations in the wake of the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack and IT outage in February is proof that most organizations are simply unprepared for such devastating incidents, said Bryan Chnowski, deputy CISO at Nuvance Health.

Many healthcare organizations have discovered major gaps in business operations preparedness - the ability to quickly rebound from major IT disruptions, such as those caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack. Jigar Kadakia, CISO of Emory Healthcare, said it's time to come up with a Plan B.

Healthcare is increasingly complex and interconnected, and the push to exchange more digital patient information among providers adds to the threat of busy staff falling victim to phishing and other scams that can jeopardize data, said Krista Arndt, CISO of United Musculoskeletal Partners.

It's critical for CISOs to study what went wrong in major ransomware IT disruptions and breaches hitting the healthcare sector and to look closely within their own organizations for similar gaps or vulnerabilities, said Michael Prakhye, CISO of Adventist HealthCare.

A study investigating the impact of ransomware attacks on hospitals and the ripple effect on nearby facilities is a call to action for policymakers to seriously address how those assaults can be better handled in the health sector, said researchers Rahi Abouk and David Powell.

By decentralizing the ownership of cybersecurity and increasing security consciousness among everyone in the organization, businesses can improve their security posture, said Dom Lombardi, the vice president of security and trust at Kandji. He discussed the concept of collaborative security.

A recent White House memo on bolstering the security and resiliency of critical infrastructure sectors calls for comprehensive mapping and risk assessment of all critical components and interdependencies within the healthcare ecosystem, said Greg Garcia of the Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council.

Updating software as new vulnerabilities are discovered persistently remains a top medical device cybersecurity challenge, said David Brumley, a cybersecurity professor at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of security firm ForAllSecure. Solving this requires a major mindset shift, he said.

Oomnitza co-founder and CEO Arthur Lozinski discusses enterprise technology management - a solution that brings software, hardware and infrastructure asset management together in a single database and uses automation to set and enforce policies for the enterprise as a whole.

Information Security Media group CTO and CISO Dan Grosu discusses the challenges of realistically implementing the directives in President Joe Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence. Hint: He thinks it's going to be "a madhouse" if enterprises don't get more educated about AI.

While fewer healthcare websites appear to be using online trackers now than a year ago, nearly 1 in 3 firms are still using Meta Pixel and similar tech tools despite warnings from regulators and a rise in class action litigation alleging privacy violations, said Ian Cohen, CEO of Lokker.

SecurityGate CEO Ted Gutierrez said the SEC's new cybersecurity mandates give "more teeth to the idea that cybersecurity is a business problem." He discussed the need for CISOs to link cyber risk and business outcomes and other ways in which the rules affect the field of cybersecurity.

While most healthcare sector organizations hit with ransomware attacks never imagine giving in to extortion demands, the pressures they face in dealing with the crisis often push about half of them to pay, said attorney Lynn Sessions of BakerHostetler, speaking about the firm's healthcare clients.