CISA Deputy Director Speaks on Defending Health care Against Cyber Attacks

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Although the issue is spotlighted right now, the truth is that attention needs to be paid to cyber security awareness every minute of every day. Hospitals and health systems can’t afford to let down their guard for a moment, because the activities of cyber criminals never stop. In this podcast we have a unique opportunity to hear from a high level government leader whose job it is to defend the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks and other threats. Tasked with this extremely important mission, and here with us today, is Nitin Natarajan, Deputy Director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. Nitin is a friend and colleague of John Riggi, who joined the AHA as national advisor for cybersecurity and risk after a nearly 30 year career with the FBI. In this podcast, John and Nitin discuss the biggest cyber and other threats facing health care and other infrastructure sectors; how they overlap; the role of CISA; and what health care providers can do to defend against the sophisticated cyber threats everyone faces.