An Expanding Threat Spectrum for Health-Related Information Technologies

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Presented at HealthTech 2015 by

Herb Lin

Amidst recent data breaches at a number of health insurance companies, a more robust cybersecurity posture for such companies is imperative. But as health information technologies grow in ubiquity and sophistication, the threat spectrum will also expand, and in ways that may make the dangers resulting from data breach pale by comparison. This talk will describe some of the new threats (and motivations for threat actors) that will be faced by health information technologies in the future, barriers to improving the cybersecurity of these technologies, and guidelines for improving the cybersecurity afforded by new health information technologies.