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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 9, 2025·2 Minute Drill
In this episode, Drex highlights former HCA CSO Paul Connolly's practical cyber insurance guidance, introduces OpenAI's new "Operator" AI agent that can independently perform web tasks, and examines the emerging organizational risks of "shadow AI" as employees implement unauthorized AI solutions in their workflows without proper oversight. Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid X: This Week Health LinkedIn: This Week Health Donate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Can
May 7, 2025·2 Minute Drill
Drex DeFord covers critical security updates affecting healthcare organizations. Ascension Health is notifying hundreds of thousands of patients about security incidents involving third-party partners. UnitedHealth Group has deployed thousands of AI applications across their operations. A new study reveals alarming password practices, with 8-character passwords and common words still widely used. Microsoft is making all new accounts passwordless by default to combat these vulnerabilities. Rememb
May 5, 2025·UnHack the News
May 5, 2025: Christian Boucher , Head of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions at Island , joins Drex for the news. They discuss the recent VMware price shock situation, diving into a deeper industry-wide issue: what happens when healthcare becomes overly dependent on specific technology pillars? Are health systems flexible enough to pivot when market forces dramatically shift the technology landscape? Throughout their discussion, Christian emphasizes the value of community collaboration in solving
May 3, 2025·2 Minute Drill
Drex covers essential cybersecurity reports including the HIMSS Survey, Cincinnati's Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study, CrowdStrike's 2025 Global Threat Report, and Verizon's DBIR. Also highlighted: an Oracle engineering error affecting 45 hospitals' EHRs, Yale New Haven's breach impacting 5.5 million patients, and Blue Shield of California's Google Analytics configuration mistake exposing 4.7 million patients' data. Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid X: This Week Health Link
Apr 30, 2025·2 Minute Drill
Drex covers three critical cybersecurity stories: The FBI's annual Internet Crime Complaints Center report revealing a 9% increase in ransomware attacks and 67 new ransomware variants; JP Morgan Chase's CISO's open letter on third-party supply chain vulnerabilities; and a major data breach at Work Composer exposing 21 million employee screenshots stored in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket. Key lesson: properly secure your cloud storage configurations. Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid X: This
Apr 28, 2025·UnHack the Podcast
April 28, 2025: James Bowie , VP and CISO of Tampa General , explores the human side of cybersecurity leadership. Facing a fragmented IT team James reveals how a $20,000 investment in ethical hacking training eliminated millions in security risks in a single weekend. Then, how do healthcare security leaders balance life-and-death decisions when ransomware hits critical services? The conversation delves into managing AI implementation safely in healthcare settings, with James detailing their two-
Apr 25, 2025·2 Minute Drill
Drex covers three urgent cybersecurity threats: a cybersecurity CEO caught installing malware on hospital computers in Oklahoma, government systems shutdown in Abilene following a cyber attack, and a dangerous malware campaign targeting Cisco WebEx users. Learn how employee vigilance stopped the hospital breach, how Texas is responding to reduced federal cybersecurity support, and critical steps to protect your organization from the WebEx vulnerability. Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid X:
Apr 23, 2025·2 Minute Drill
Drex covers three key security stories: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's alleged sharing of classified information via Signal, resulting in a 13% increase in Signal usage; CISA recommendations following two Oracle breaches affecting healthcare customers and Cloud login data; and crosswalk buttons being hacked to play AI-spoofed voices of tech executives due to unchanged default passwords. X : This Week Health LinkedIn: This Week Health Donate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood C
Apr 18, 2025·2 Minute Drill
Drex covers three critical security stories: the government's reversal of its decision to defund Mitre's Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE) program, a ransomware attack on DaVita's 3,100+ dialysis facilities across 14 countries, and former CISA Assistant Director Chris Krebs' resignation from Sentinel One following an executive order targeting him. Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid X: This Week Health LinkedIn: This Week Health Donate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for
Apr 17, 2025·2 Minute Drill
Drex discusses significant disruptions in federal cybersecurity leadership, including the investigation of former CISA Director Chris Krebs, government officials withdrawing from the RSA Security Conference, and potential 40% personnel cuts at CISA. Drex emphasizes that healthcare organizations should not expect federal cybersecurity assistance and must instead build their own community of security partners and resources. Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid X: This Week Health LinkedIn:
Apr 14, 2025·UnHack the News
April 14, 2025: George Pappas , CEO of Intraprise Health , joins Drex DeFord for the news. The conversation explores Chris Hughes' insights on how machine-readable security controls and dynamic monitoring could revolutionize cybersecurity frameworks. How are rural hospitals surviving in a landscape where financial constraints clash with escalating security demands? The discussion takes a critical look at the regulatory environment, where HIPAA audits have been sparse since 2017 despite record-br
Apr 11, 2025·2 Minute Drill
Drex examines The alarming rise of intimate deepfakes targeting primarily women and children, with 18 states currently offering no legal protection against these digital sex crimes. Various state legislative efforts including Montana's focus on combating political deepfakes, particularly within 60 days of elections; and OpenAI's first investment in cybersecurity through a $43 million funding round for Adaptive Security, a company specializing in training organizations to recognize deepfake attac
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