Healthcare Insecurity: What are we going to do about it?

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Presented at BSidesVancouver 2017 by

Bob Fruth

After many years in the trenches at Microsoft, long time software industry veteran Bob Fruth recently took on a new challenge and moved into the healthcare software sector. In this talk, Bob illustrates some of the challenges of healthcare, including the patient safety trump card, how privacy conversations are relatively short, and the number one cause of all those recent ransomware attacks. He describes what he sees as the primary demands and unique opportunities for the sector in the coming years, and concludes by providing actionable guidance and detailing a pragmatic approach for assessing risk and prioritizing security remediations and enhancements.