As one of the most misunderstood technologies in 2017, Blockchain continues to be an exciting enigma to many healthcare organizations.  This is especially interesting and exciting in the field of security, where blockchain's secure peer-to-peer ledger systems could completely disrupt core application development in clinical transformation efforts, claims adjusting and billing management, and especially cybersecurity.

 

In this presentation, we will review Blockchain technology and debunk the myths or conjecture around it's use in healthcare.  Listen in as we outline how Blockchain can be implemented to secure Health IT infrastructure, secure IoT connected devices, improve security interoperability, and reduce the ability of ransomware to propogate within a network.

 

 

 

Blockchain has slowly gone from buzzword, to reality.  Longtime collaborative partners in the Virginia marketplace, Old Dominion University and Integrated Delivery System Sentara Health, have come together in an ambitious pilot to prove the merits of blockchain within cybersecurity.  But ultimately, what did this mean, and what does such a pilot really look like in terms of day-to-day influence and effectiveness.

 

In this presentation, we hear from cybersecurity researcher and technologist, Dr. Sachin Shetty, who will reveal the critical elements behind this pilot, and why blockchain's potential can expand to identity management, effective access controls and much more-- while also having realistic limitations.

 

 

 

The May 2017 cybersecurity attack dubbed “WannaCry” grabbed storylines internationally and across the healthcare landscape as tens of thousands of hospitals, organizations, and agencies across 153 countries had their data held hostage.

 

The enhanced crypto-locking worm spread quickly, with a headliner target of the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain, which resulted in extended downtime, rescheduling of procedures, and in numerous cases preventing access to care for patients.  The worm propagated and spread using a Microsoft platform vulnerability related to the Server Message Block protocol, which revealed many healthcare organizations’ weak points in the areas of security standards compliance, network structures, and disaster recovery protocols.  

 

In this special panel discussion, Healthcare Informatics welcomes a panel of top security experts, as they recall and summarize the top lessons learned in security compliance and organizational frameworks behind the WannaCry attack.  Listen in as our panelists provide their perspectives, and delve into the nature of the attack—diagramming how this threat was uniquely dangerous for healthcare organizations, and why security compliance and protocols for disaster recovery allowed his organization and others to manage the situation quickly and effectively.

 

 

The rapid adoption of connected IoT medical devices has both enhanced the quality of care and increased the vulnerability of healthcare organizations. Although almost 10 months have passed since WannaCry first disrupted the industry, many organizations continue to struggle to implement a comprehensive security plan against such attacks. Reliable real-world data of Connected Medical Devices from the perspective of cyber security, simply did not exist.
 
In this session, we will share the exclusive details and statistics based on analysis of tens of thousands connected medical devices deployed in real-world environments. Learn how your organizations compare with the studies that outline the types of devices in-service, devices with most security issues and the most common cause of security issues in connected medical devices. Most importantly, learn how to plan your security implementations based on concrete research data not previously available.

 

 

 

According to a recent Market Pulse survey, one out of every five employees would sell their corporate credentials, up from one in seven a year ago. Traditional perimeter approaches to security are increasingly ineffective. With new Delivery Channels including cloud and mobile, new sources of information via medical and wearable devices and the use of analytics and cognitive computing, information has become much more pervasive, porous, and shared, making it more difficult to secure. What does this all mean for an organization? It means taking a new approach to security. Think of security as an immune system. a system of capabilities that work together to protect the entire organism regardless of where the threat is coming from.  

 

In this T2 Talk session, we will discuss recent security and industry trends and research, discuss the Immune System approach, how cognitive and AI can enhance a Security Immune System, plus provide practical advice for getting started building your own Security Immune System. We’ll cap off our session with a demonstration of a Security Immune System built in the Cloud. 

 

Legacy systems, from medical devices, to electronic health records, to billing platforms, each pose a unique security threat if left untested as a potential threat for breach. There are the obvious security risks like Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) internet access, but what about additional legacy systems that will be unsupported is patched or upgraded beyond a certain point? One of the biggest influencing factors of the WannaCry ransomware outbreak of May 2017, was this concept of legacy systems remaining unpatched past Windows XP, which opened the door for an exploit and propagation of the virus on a grand scale.

 

In this engaging panel discussion, we visit with a panel of top security experts as they explore the commonalities and risks among legacy systems. Listen in as our panel defined which legacy systems are most at risk, which systems are commonly overlooked in evaluation, and what patching protocols are covered by existing vendor relationships.