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State of Healthcare Cybersecurity: Progress and Pitfalls

Phil Englert of Health-ISAC and Murad Dikeidek of UI Health speak about the challenges of health sector security and offer insights.

While the healthcare sector is making progress in cyber resilience, it still faces deep-rooted challenges, including collaboration, cyber workforce issues, and budget constraints, necessitating a constant demand for adaptation and re-prioritization as adversaries shift their tactics, said security experts Phil Englert and Murad Dikeidek.

“One of the things that we see happening more and more, and still not enough, is information sharing,” said Englert, vice president of medical device security at the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

Information sharing can be vital to helping the overall sector better understand the threats it is facing, yet there’s still uncertainty at many organizations about the level of details healthcare providers should disclose, he said.

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