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 […]
Q&A with Health-ISAC President Denise Anderson: “Sharing Cyber Incidents Makes Us All Stronger”
Though sharing information with other health systems may not be a priority for leadership teams working through a breach, it is, ironically, one of the most important actions organizations can take for their peers, according to Denise Anderson, President of Health ISAC. That’s because, as she puts it, “one person’s defense will become everyone else’s […]
Q&A with Harris Health Chief Cyber & Info Security Officer Jeffrey Vinson: “The only safe day was yesterday.”
Q&A with University of Miami Health System AVP/CISO Mauricio Angee: Time to Remediate Must be Lightning Fast
What it means to be a good CISO changes over time. In the past, it was all about rolling out some technologies that protected the enterprise. Today, however, that’s just stakes to play. Today, CISO are being defined by how good they are at keeping the business up and running, and how quickly they get […]
Q&A with American Hospital Association National Adviser for Cybersecurity & Risk John Riggi
For those in IT, saying cybersecurity represents a massive enterprise-level risk is not breaking any news, but it is incumbent on those IT folks to make sure that message is clearly communicated to the business leaders in the C-suite. Conversely, it’s also incumbent on business leaders to demand that their IT counterparts translate IT risk […]
Q&A with Loma Linda University Health CISO Pat Voon: “Right Sizing the Right Framework Can Go a Long Way”
Health systems are being asked to do more with less, and the CISO has not been immune from such belt tightening, according to Pat Voon, CISO at Loma Linda University Health. But while the process may be less than pleasant, there is a sensible way to move forward. Voon, who’s been plying his trade for […]