Most CISOs understand that one of their key phone calls after a ransomware incident will be to the FBI, but what they may not appreciate is that it shouldn’t be their first to that organization. That’s because the emergency call will be much more effective, and the response much more efficient, if a relationship has […]
Q&A with Rebecca Kennis, CISO, Arnot Health: My One Number Job is Creating a Culture of Security
Email is the lifeblood of any organization, with thousands coming in every day. It’s also the number one attack vector. Unfortunately, even the best filtering tools miss between 7 and 10 percent of the spam that CISOs would love to see caught. That puts the onus on employees to manually filter the rest. It’s for […]
Q&A with Denver Health Enterprise CISO Randall “Fritz” Frietzsche: “Building Relationships & Mastering Communication are Keys to CISO Effectiveness”
Randall “Fritz” Frietzsche has been on a mission to protect and serve for a long time. Way back when, it was in traditional law enforcement as a deputy sheriff. Later, as he embraced his technical acumen, it was in cybersecurity. But Frietzsche, Enterprise CISO for Denver Health, attests that all the technical chops in the […]
Q&A with Eric Liederman, MD, National Leader, Privacy, Security & IT Infrastructure, The Permanente Federation: “Cyber Leaders & Clinicians Must Work Together”
The more you know about your customer, the better you can serve them. And that definitely goes for health system CISOs trying to serve (and protect) their clinician customers. As Dr. Eric Liederman says, it’s not that hard to lock things down; what’s trickier is putting in place as much protection and risk mitigation as […]
Q&A with WellSpan Health Director of Information Security Mike Shrader: “Empathy & Collaboration Go a Long Way”
It may be a cliché, but for security leaders, knowledge is definitely power. And that knowledge must come from a number of directions. First off, CISOs and their teams must be ingesting the latest threat intelligence to know what the bad guys are up to, but that information can only be acted upon in a […]