Government Information Security Podcast

The Health Sector Coordinating Council is urging the Trump administration to drop work on a proposed HIPAA security rule update and instead engage in a collaborative dialogue with healthcare sector leaders to create alternative cyber requirements, said Greg Garcia, executive director of HSCC.

NHL CISO David Munroe outlines how the league protects critical infrastructure across public arenas and streaming platforms. He details the league's use of cloud and AI tools, and highlights the importance of cloud governance, AI-powered defenses and user education in mitigating risk.

Palo Alto Networks CTO Nir Zuk predicts Google's security push through its $32 billion buy of Wiz won't succeed, as customers are reluctant to buy multi-cloud tools from cloud vendors. Zuk details how adversaries use LLMs at scale and how Palo Alto is unifying SOC tools under its Cortex platform.

While recent draft guidance from the Food and Drug Administration on artificial intelligence-enabled medical devices is non-binding, the document signals that the agency is intensifying its regulatory scrutiny of these technologies, said Dr. Scott Schell of IT consulting firm Cognizant.

As uncertainty mounts about the range of cyber resources the federal government will continue to offer healthcare and other critical infrastructure sectors during the Trump administration, states will need to step up their support, said Mike Hamilton, field CISO of cybersecurity firm Lumifi Cyber.

Artificial intelligence-based tools are among the most promising advancing technologies for healthcare sector organizations to help to address cybersecurity resource shortages, said Chris Tyberg, CISO of medical device and consumer health product manufacturer Abbott.

The use of artificial intelligence is not only reshaping healthcare delivery in the sector but also healthcare cybersecurity within organizations, said Anahi Santiago, CISO of ChristianaCare, the largest healthcare delivery organization in the state of Delaware.

Legacy apps and medical devices continue to pose persistent and considerable risk to healthcare IT environments, and many organizations are still unaware of their prevalence in their settings, said Keith Fricke, partner and principal consultant at tw-Security, who discusses mitigation steps to take.

State privacy laws, such as Washington State's My Health My Data Act, could throw a curve ball in the use of certain consumer information for artificial intelligence and machine learning endeavors, said regulatory attorney Adam Greene of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine.

Quantum computing could bring the next technology "revolution" in healthcare, but organizations will face critical cybersecurity issues when quantum becomes a reality, said attorney Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.