HIMSSCast: As security threats rise, intelligence sharing is essential

This has already been a record setting year for cybersecurity, in all the wrong ways. Errol Weiss, chief security officer of Health-ISAC, discusses the cyber risks he's most concerned about and makes the case for cross-sector information sharing.

By Mike Miliard

August 16, 2024

10:06 AM

Photo: Tetra/Getty Images

If the cybersecurity space has seemed a bit busier than usual recently, you're not imagining things. At the halfway mark of 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights showed nearly 400 data breaches reported to its portal as of June 30 – the most in six months since OCR began keeping track 14 years ago.

We spoke recently with Errol Weiss, chief security officer of Health-ISAC, about that dubious milestone – and about how healthcare organizations can better position themselves to not be one of those statistics.

The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center is a global organization designed to help healthcare stakeholders coordinate, collaborate and share cybersecurity threat intelligence and best practices.

Weiss discussed the critical value of such information sharing as healthcare organizations work to shore up their defenses and risk-mitigation strategies amid an increasingly fraught cybersecurity landscape.

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Talking points:

H-ISAC and its mission.
How it can help during a historic moment for healthcare cybersecurity.
How healthcare organizations can make best use of its services.
Top cybersecurity threats for to healthcare and how the nature of the risk has changed.
Must-have strategies for healthcare organizations to mitigate risk.
How healthcare organizations' readiness and responsiveness is improving.
Emerging cyber trends and concerns for the future.