Every healthcare organization and its executives are fully aware of the impact cybersecurity threats can have on their business. The approach that many take to address security is: hire people and spend money. While resources are required to address security, this leads to an approach where organizations are broadly doing good things but are not focused on the activities that have an impact enterprise-wide. One of the root causes of this problem is that security executives do not have proper visibility into the organization in order to provide executives with an understanding of the overall state of security. The root cause of this lack of focus is minimal leverage of metrics-driven, simple-to-absorb information. Creating a dashboard with proper metrics that accurately show the true state of security across entire healthcare organization is a critical communication tool. This presentation will not only identify what the key indicators of compromise are for healthcare organizations and how to address them, but more importantly it will provide details on what metrics should be tracked and how to create executive-level real-time monitoring of security issues. By evolving from reactive to proactive security measures, organizations can properly prevent, detect and respond to cyber attacks.

Learning Objectives:

·         Identify key indicators of compromise in hospitals

·         Explain how to track and monitor key metrics

·         Describe how to create an effective real time security dashboard

·         Discuss how to encourage executive visibility into the overall security of an organization

·         Explain how to communicate key security objectives to the BoD

Eric Cole,VP of Cyber Security, First Health Advisory Solutions
Carter Groome, CEO, First Health Advisory Solutions