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Boards want to see a solid return on cyber investments, and that can be tough to do given hard ROI numbers. Can be challenging for some cyber investments. Overall budgets are predicted to grow over the next several years. The most successful CISOs are tying investments to outcomes with a clear connection to the mission or reducing tech stack sprawl.

And improving compliance, and that last one's a focus for us in healthcare with more regulations at the state level and pending HIPAA security rule expansion. If you'd like to share some of your ideas on how you work with the board to better connect on security portfolio investments, I'd love to hear about the plan.

Drop me a note. I'm Drex at ThisWeekHealth. com. With just a few days left in office, the White House has launched the U. S. Cyber Trust Mark. It's a voluntary labeling program that alerts buyers about the security of interconnected smart devices. The hope is it'll incentivize manufacturers to build more secure devices from the start, since many of those devices are used by cyber thugs to attack health care.

and other organizations regularly. The White House is also working on an executive order to limit federal purchasing of connected products to those who meet the cyber trust mark minimum standard. When a health system is victimized by a cyber attack, one of the first things that seems to happen is that a class action lawsuit is filed against the organization.

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Check it out at InterpriseHealth. com. That's it for today's two minute drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid, and I'll see you around campus.