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Podcasts Hosted by Bill Russell, Sarah Richardson, and Drex DeFord
In-depth interviews with healthcare CIOs, CISOs, and technology leaders. Bill Russell explores the decisions, strategies, and innovations shaping healthcare transformation.
May 15, 2026·2 Minute Drill
Tyler Buchanan grew up in Dundee, Scotland and became one of the most consequential cybercriminals in the English-speaking world. His method was almost insultingly simple: text messages. Posing as IT help desks, he sent phishing texts to employees at companies like Twilio, LastPass, Mailchimp, and DoorDash. Directing them to convincing fake login pages that captured credentials and 2FA codes in real time. Find out how he got caught in this 2 Minute Drill Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid
May 13, 2026·Executive Interview
May 13, 2026: Jake Morrison , Global Healthcare Practice Head at Infinite Computer Solutions , joins Bill Russell for a candid executive conversation about what's really driving healthcare IT today. From the promise of AI to the surge in managed services demand, Jake shares why the old "outsource your mess for less" mindset is failing health systems. With 28 global delivery centers and half of Infinite's work in healthcare, Jake brings a uniquely global perspective on where the industry is heade
May 8, 2026·2 Minute Drill
North Korean threat actors didn't breach a firewall. They built a fake company. UNC1069 spent two weeks constructing a convincing Slack workspace, fake team members, and LinkedIn profiles to earn the trust of Jason Seaman -- lead maintainer of Axios, a JavaScript library downloaded over 100 million times a week. One Teams call. One file. Within hours, malicious code was live and reaching health systems everywhere. The attack skipped the $50M security stack entirely and went straight to the human
May 5, 2026·Executive Interview
May 5, 2026: What happens when attackers don't just break into your systems, they become you? Josh Howell , Healthcare CTO at Rubrik , joins Drex DeFord to unpack Rubrik's newly announced partnership with the American Hospital Association, a rigorous vetting process that signals a new standard in cyber risk validation. Josh draws on hundreds of ransomware recovery experiences to challenge how health systems think about resilience, recovery sequencing, and the identity control plane. Learn why th
Apr 30, 2026·2 Minute Drill
Matthew Lane was 14 when he started probing the edges of online gaming systems. By 20, he had walked out of PowerSchool with data on nearly 70 million students and teachers using nothing but a contractor's stolen credentials he found on the dark web. Drex tells the full story and then lands the part that matters most for healthcare: Lane didn't exploit a sophisticated vulnerability. He used a username and password attached to someone who had legitimate access and simply walked through the front
Apr 29, 2026·Executive Interview
April 29, 2026: Bill Russell sits down with Jim Jacobs , President and CEO of MediQuant , to confront one of healthcare's most expensive and underappreciated problems: runaway application complexity. Jim makes the case that software rationalization isn't an IT to-do list item; it's a board-level imperative. With health systems carrying $60 million in unwanted software spend and cyber risks piling up in legacy systems that no one is maintaining, the urgency has never been higher. And with AI dema
Apr 24, 2026·2 Minute Drill
While the industry debates frontier AI models and nation-state threats, hospitals are still getting hit by ransomware through the same doors they've always left open. Drex zooms out to what's actually happening on the ground: massive patch cycles creating downstream operational pressure, countries reconsidering their software dependencies, and CISOs quietly doubling down on fundamentals. MFA, identity management, tested backups, network segmentation. The HICP documents are free, the roadmap alre
Apr 16, 2026·The 229 Podcast
April 16, 2026: Something big is changing at This Week Health, and it starts with this episode. Bill Russell sits down with Sarah Richardson to announce that Flourish, the beloved show Sarah has helmed since joining TWH, is joining the 229 Podcast. But this isn't a step back; it's a consolidation of purpose. Bill and Sarah unpack why simplifying to a single channel better serves the healthcare IT community, what listeners can expect going forward, and why the conversations that happened on Flour
Apr 15, 2026·2 Minute Drill
The Kim Wolf botnet was the most powerful ever built — 2 million compromised IoT devices, a record-breaking 31.4 terabit DDoS attack, and it had the FBI, Google, and Cloudflare stumped. Drex breaks down how those cheap, forgotten devices in patient waiting rooms and break rooms became weapons inside hospital networks, and why 25% of Infoblox's enterprise healthcare clients were already compromised. Then comes the wild part: a 22-year-old RIT undergrad named Benjamin cracked the whole operation —
Apr 9, 2026·2 Minute Drill
The window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has collapsed — from 63 days in 2018 to negative. Now AI is changing the game entirely. Drex walks through how Anthropic's unreleased model Mythos autonomously found a critical zero-day in the Ghost CMS, wrote its own exploit, and extracted sensitive credentials in under two hours — all without a CVE ever existing. Add in two accidental Anthropic data leaks in the same week, and the story gets more complicated. For healthcare organizati
Apr 8, 2026·Executive Interview
April 8, 2026: Frank Duff , Chief Innovation Officer at Tidal Cyber , and one of the original architects of the Mitre ATT&CK framework, joins Drex DeFord on UnHack to expose an uncomfortable truth: most organizations are sitting on powerful security tools they've never fully turned on. Drawing from 18 years at Mitre and deep experience running ATT&CK evaluations, Frank explains how Tidal Cyber bridges the gap between what vendors build and what customers actually deploy. Squeezing more o
Apr 3, 2026·Solution Showcase
April 3, 2026: Kory Hudson , Deputy CIO at University Health in San Antonio, Texas, and Lindsay Hudson , SVP of Client Partnerships at Nordic , join Bill Russell live from HIMSS to share how a candid assessment, a governance overhaul, and a return to scheduling best practice transformed patient access and unlocked millions in net revenue. Key Points: 02:57 Back to Best Practice Scheduling 04:08 Nordic Assessment and Key Gaps 06:30 Foundation Rebuild and Change 09:53 Early Results and CIO Advice
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