Data Breach Today Podcast

A directory service should be a "source of truth," said Justin Kohler, vice president of products at Spector Ops. But when users are overprivileged or misconfigurations occur, that creates attack hubs. Kohler discusses BloodHound, a solution he says is like Google Maps for Active Directory.

President Joe Biden's recent executive order for artificial intelligence encourages investment in AI while setting a vision for a regulatory framework to address issues involving AI technology safety, bias and other concerns in healthcare, said attorney Wendell Bartnick of the law firm Reed Smith.

Despite the high frequency of major health data breaches involving vendors, many healthcare sector entities remain lax in their approach to manage and reduce third-party security risk, said Glen Braden, CIO and principal of compliance auditing firm Attest Health Care Advisors.

AI is being used "by everyone" these days, including by malicious nation-state actors, and that is raising the level of threats and risks facing hospitals and other healthcare entities, said John Riggi, national adviser for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association.

Exciting advancements in medicine through the use of AI are already happening, and many more are in the pipeline. But they need to be approached carefully and vetted properly for risk, said Dr. Eric Liederman, medical informatics and national privacy and security leader at Kaiser Permanente.

Regulating AI is "like regulating Jell-O," said Massachusetts risk counsel Jenny Hedderman, but states are looking at regulating "areas of harm" rather than AI as a whole. In this episode of "Cybersecurity Insights," Hedderman discusses privacy, third-party vendor risk, and lawyers' use of AI.

In this episode of CyberEd.io's podcast series "Cybersecurity Insights," former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan discusses the Uber trial and offers guidance to future CISOs. Was the Uber case a data breach or not. Sullivan explained why that making that distinction can be complicated.

Stolen and compromised credentials continue to be the crux of major health data security incidents involving cloud environments. But stronger credential management practices and a focused approach to "least privilege engineering" would help, said Taylor Lehmann of Google Cloud.

In this episode of CyberEd.io's podcast series "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Alex Zeltcer of nSure.ai discusses how fraudsters access your payment information, how industrialized payment fraud attacks operate, and how nSure.ai uses discriminative AI to identify these attacks and cut their scale.

Visibility, consistency, efficiency - are goals every security leader strives to achieve across cloud environments, and remains one of the key digital transformation challenges. Cisco's Sean Baze talks about how to overcome this challenge and discover new efficiencies through a data-driven approach.