Health Tech / Cybersecurity Joint Forum - Nov. 10

Description

 Keep flossing:  Root causes, good hygiene, and cyber insecurity in healthcare

Please join us for an interactive discussion of current vulnerabilities, emerging threats, and viable solutions in a health industry experiencing increasingly frequent, complex and malicious cyber-attacks.  Our expert panel will discuss realities that make the health industry especially difficult to protect and defend from cyber-attacks, the most common and pernicious methods of attacking healthcare organizations, and how those methods are likely to evolve, and real world actions you can take to mitigate risks and protect your organization and its most valuable data and information.

Moderator:  Todd Kelly, Lead Health Technology Attorney, Jones Day

Panelists:
William Long, Vice President of IS Systems and CISO, Children's Medical Center
Jeff Shaffer, Director, PwC Advisory, and former director of the US Secret Service Forensics Lab in Dallas
Randy Armstrong, CTO, Velentium

Due to security regulations at the bank, advanced registration is required - no walk-in registration.


Todd Kelly is a health care transactional and regulatory attorney with more than 20 years of experience representing leading  health care institutions and other industry participants.  His experience includes representation of public companies, private for-profit businesses, tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, private equity firms, entrepreneurs, and major medical group practices.




William Long has spent 30 years in information technology working both in the payor and provider sectors of the healthcare industry for 28 of those years.  During his career, he has held a number of information technology and security leadership roles.  Prior to Children's, Long was the VP of Technology and Infrastructure at Baylor Scott & White Health, where he was responsible for all technology supporting the hospitals and clinics, including the biomedical and imaging technologies.  In prior roles, Long has held security leadership positions where he developed security functions from the ground up.



Jeff Shaffer joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2015, after 25 years with the United States Secret Service as a Senior Special Agent and Director of the top ranked Secret Service Digital Forensics Laboratory.  Mr. Shaffer has extensive and varied experience as an investigator, protection specialist, counter terrorism specialist, Team Leader and digital forensic examiner.  Mr. Shaffer was nominated on separate occasions for Secret Service Agent of the Year and Texas Law Enforcement Agent of the Year.  Mr. Shaffer's areas of focus include digital forensics, incident response, investigations, e-discovery, and litigation support.  He has worked on hundreds of forensic investigations related to cybercrime, IP theft, fraud, terrorism, kidnapping, and murder.  He has investigated cases across numerous industries including energy, retail, banking, healthcare, telecommunications, and federal / state governments.


Randy Armstrong has over 30 years experience in medical device design, specializing in active implantables such as pacemakers, defibrillators, heart pumps, and neurostimulators.  With nearly 20 commercially-available product designs and 52 issued US patents, he has had direct involvement in the maturation of design controls and risk mitigation.  Mr. Armstrong is a US Delegate to ISO for the development of medical device standards, was a past co-chairman of the AAMI Neurosurgery and TENS Committees, and is a licensed PE.