It's critical for healthcare providers that offer telehealth and remote patient monitoring services to incorporate these systems into their organizational risk programs, including how they plan to address issues such as patch management from afar, said attorney Betsy Hodge of the law firm Akerman.

States will increasingly be stepping up to fill gaps in the healthcare sector with new cyber legislation and requirements as the Trump administration promises to roll back regulations, predicts attorney Amy Magnano of the law firm Morgan Lewis' healthcare practice.

While artificial intelligence platforms and tools promise to offer encouraging potential in healthcare, many are unprepared to deal with the risks these emerging technologies pose - similar to the early days of social media, said Keith Fricke, partner and principal of tw-Security.

While AI platforms and tools promise to offer encouraging potential in healthcare, many are unprepared to deal with the risks these emerging technologies pose - similar to the early days of social media, said Keith Fricke, co-managing partner and principal consultant at tw-Security.

With the pace of global change so often creating a sense of accelerating chaos, it's easy to view cyber defenders as firefighters constantly on call. But Black Hat conference founder and creator Jeff Moss warned that "things have been on fire for as long as I can remember."

Under the Trump administration, the proposed update to the HIPAA Security Rule - issued in the final weeks of the Biden administration - is likely to get trimmed but not totally cut, predicts regulatory attorney Sharon Klein of the law firm Blank Rome. What else should the health sector expect?

The pace of change including the rise of artificial intelligence and a sense of accelerating chaos can make cybersecurity professionals feel like "things are kind of everything, everywhere, all at once," said Black Hat conference founder Jeff Moss. How should they respond?

Many important efforts by the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency to help the healthcare sector and other critical infrastructure sectors bolster their cybersecurity are likely to continue under the incoming Trump administration, predicted CISA Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan.

The first 100 days of the next Trump administration and new Congress will be critical in showing signs of what's potentially in store for the healthcare sector cybersecurity, privacy and related regulatory and legislative issues in the new year, said Chelsea Arnone and Cassie Ballard of CHIME.

As healthcare entities embrace generative AI tools, it's critical they take a holistic approach addressing privacy and security governance, said Dave Perry, digital workspace operations manager, St. Joseph's Healthcare in Ontario, who discusses how his organization is tackling those challenges.