Protecting Healthcare’s Essential Data from Cyber Threats (E58)

If your favorite baseball site is attacked you have a mild inconvenience; if your healthcare provider gets locked out of data, then you have a serious problem.

Today’s discussion includes experts from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and a subject matter expert from Rubrik. They discuss the concept of improving the delivery of customer services in a world full of cyberattacks. The focus is on quick recovery if a system is compromised.

Dr. John B. Murphy from Rubrik sets the stage when he says that if you look at the average time an attacker is in a network, which is subsequently compromised, it is around 70 days. What about a hospital that has surgeries scheduled and emergency room patients arriving hourly? Dr. Murphy suggests that it is a best practice to have backups that are immutable and readily accessible to maintain continuity of service for extremely sensitive networks.

If you move up the chain in the world of healthcare, you will arrive at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. They have a serious responsibility to provide citizen service by having health-related systems provide continuous operation.

La Monte Yarborough from HHS suggests that it is all about the data. If attacked, a systems administrator must be able to quickly gain visibility into a network to remediate the situation. Managers must consider methods to hunt across larger and larger data sets.

Col. Bobby Saxon works at the CMS. His experience leads him to encourage automation for improving continuous operations. This is an all-encompassing term that includes having reliable backups, but also being able to communicate with software development teams who are producing code for the agency. He refers to the Air Force’s popular “Platform One” system where software factories develop systems with intense collaboration and flexibility with federal agencies.

To view this webinar: Protecting Healthcare’s Essential Data from Cyber Threats.

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