Health-ISAC Leader on How to Defend Ever-Increasing, Ever-Lucrative Attack Surface
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Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • September 22, 2022
Errol Weiss has been chief security officer of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center for three years and during that time, the healthcare sector has undergone a historic revolution in the digital delivery of services to patients. Also in that time, the attack surface has grown exponentially. How can entities best defend it?
In this interview with Information Security Media Group as part of the CyberEdBoard‘s ongoing Profiles in Leadership series, Weiss discusses:
- His career path in the public and private sectors;
- Healthcare’s exponential digital expansion – and broadening attack surface;
- The value of networking with and supporting healthcare organizations in times of crisis and mentoring his own team on training and career goals.
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