This year's Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas brings together industry leaders to address the growing cyber threats and the need for strong healthcare protection.
Experts share real-world insights from recent attacks and highlight strategies to enhance cybersecurity defenses.
In collaboration with the Health Sector Coordination Council, the discussion will focus on the Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan 2024-2029, highlighting common responsibility and best practices to increase resilience across the sector.
The day begins with a session led by Chris Tyberg, chairman of the HSCC Cyberworking Group, and presents the Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan.
This session outlines the roadmap for moving healthcare cybersecurity from a critical risk state to greater stability by 2029.
Tyberg highlights key strategies to address emerging cyber threats, leverage advanced technology and foster international collaboration.
Other topics include strengthening IT infrastructure, protecting patient data, and ensuring operational resilience in increasingly complex threat situations.
Late in the morning, Josh Howell, Rubrik's Healthcare CTO, discusses the key role of cyber resilience in protecting patient data and ensuring uninterrupted care.
Prevention and security remain essential, but it is not sufficient to protect healthcare organizations from the spread of cyber threats.
This session explores key principles of cyber resilience, focusing on strategies for rapid recovery after attacks, and highlights the financial, legal and reputational risks of cyber incidents.
Eric Decker and Sean Anderson, vice president and CISO at Intermountain Health, are the organization's cybersecurity director, Sean Anderson, who discusses aggressive defense strategies against healthcare cyber threats, and uses them by cybercriminals. Decomposes common invasion tactics and identifies vulnerabilities from initial access to pre-attack stages.
The speaker also explores Bel La Padura's security model and other established cybersecurity principles, enhancing key IT systems such as Active Directory with a secure, per-default approach for each design.
Another roundtable focuses on data integrity and protecting privacy standards for secure, interoperable health data.
The panel is hosted by Dr. Hannah K. Galvin, CMIO of the Cambridge Health Alliance, and the panel is Keith Busby, vice president and chief privacy officer at Uchealth, who plays CISO at Avanade's cybersecurity solutions lead CMS and Alex Enriquez. features the Vice President and Chief Privacy Director of the company.
The discussion focuses on unified privacy standards to protect secure health data exchange while protecting patient data integrity, and the panel improves interoperability and consent-driven, patient-centered data We investigate the role of TEFCA in promoting a shared ecosystem. p
Panelists also outline strategies to balance data privacy with seamless data exchange, enabling collaboration across healthcare organizations and improving patient care outcomes.
Ashley Mancuso, vice president of Johnson & Johnson's MedTech Security, will host a fireside chat to address the challenges of medical device security and healthcare cybersecurity. This discussion covers strategies to mitigate risk, ensure compliance and enhance resilience in medical device security.
The final session of the day will be discussions between Intermountain Health Vice President and CISO, and Network AVP Information Security at the University of Vermont Health, Nate Couture at CISO and Eric Decker at CISU on managing major ransomware attacks.
Covers operational challenges such as moving to paper-based workflows, critical decision points in system repair, and collaboration with law enforcement agencies, and effectively recover strategies, strengthen resilience, and future cybersecurity threats Provides insight into the application of lessons to.
“Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum: Mitigating Cyberthreat Risks across Healthcare Enterprises: A Strategy to Protect” is scheduled for Monday, March 3rd, from 8am to 4:45pm on HIMSS25.
