The Clear Perspective

This podcast discusses how specialty practice groups and private equity investors can set strategies to achieve their desired outcomes without disrupting patient care. Topics covered include setting short-term or long-term goals, working on an organization's resiliency and security maturity, and the measures that drive operational efficiency to grow and become a stronger organization. 

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This podcast openly discusses some challenges first-time clients encounter when seeking HITRUST. Clearwater HITRUST Assessors will discuss the paths of a validated e1 and an i1 certification and clarify the various ways to indicate how an organization assesses and responds to the controls it has in scope for its assessment. They also discuss when and how to use the non-applicable vs. zero population. If you're curious about these n...

This episode looks at how significant changes are now being defined in PCI DSS 4.0 and asks our experts how organizations can address these changes. PCI DSS 4.0 specifies the details that define significant change, when organizations will need to evaluate change, and our assessors discuss how risk analysis plays a greater role in managing this change in the standard. Listen and learn what you need to know to get ready for your asse...

In this episode of the Healthcare Defenders podcast, Lisa Munro sits down with Jackie Mattingly, Virtual CISO and Senior Director of Consulting Services. Jackie shares her journey into healthcare cybersecurity, from her early days in IT to her defining moment when the FBI came knocking, exposing the dark side of cybersecurity threats. Together, they explore the unique challenges facing small and rural hospitals, Jackie's role in ta...

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In this episode of Healthcare Defenders, Lisa Munro speaks with Heather Costa, the Director of Technology Resilience at Mayo Clinic. They discuss the importance of resilience in healthcare organizations, Heather's unique journey into cybersecurity, the significance of human connections in technical fields, and efforts to bridge the gender gap in cybersecurity.

Heather emphasizes the need for strong relat...

Healthcare security has seen breaches that could have been prevented if MFA had been better designed and deployed. Listen to the discussion of the Do’s and Don'ts of MFA in Healthcare. We’ll share how organizations can do better and reduce MFA fatigue and the contention with the frontline security control that helps to keep organizations and patient data safe.  

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In this episode of Clearwater’s Healthcare Defenders podcast series, Clearwater CEO Steve Cagle talks with Augie D’Agostino, CIO for UW Medicine in Seattle Washington.

Augie describes himself as an “unlikely” CISO, telling Steve he meant to go into education after over 20 years in IT and security, but cybersecurity kept “heating up” and drawing him back in. Steve and Augie cover major topics affecting healthcare cybersecurity rig...

In this episode of Clearwater experts examine the intersection of privacy and cybersecurity in healthcare. Steve Akers, CISO at Clearwater, and Andrew Mueller, VP of Privacy and Compliance at Clearwater, discuss the evolution of security information and event management (SIEM) tools, emphasizing the challenges of applying traditional security logic to address privacy violations.

In this episode of our Healthcare Defenders series Steve Cagle, CEO of Clearwater, speaks with Erik Decker, Chief Information Security Officer at Intermountain Healthcare, and Chair of the Cybersecurity Working Group of the health sector coordinating council. Erik sheds light on their latest initiatives, including the recently announced 5-year Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan. Learn about the shared responsibility o...

Federal authorities and HHS warn of risk to healthcare organizations the threat from a compromised ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect by a third-party pharmacy vendor across all 50 states. We’ll review some of the uncovered issues and share what organizations can learn from this as vendors or healthcare providers.

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In healthcare, safeguarding cybersecurity is safeguarding patients. Whether it's a hospital, health system, physician group, or a trusted digital health partner, when healthcare is attacked, patients are at risk. Join us as we feature some of healthcare's fiercest defenders. They're leaders from across the ecosystem fighting to protect data, systems, and care delivery.

In this Healthcare Defender episode, Dave Bailey speaks with ...

In the last episode of this three-part series, Steve Cagle, Bob Chaput, and Mac McMillan return with an exploration of the common pitfalls in allocating cybersecurity budgets and transitions to a pivotal question: where should security leaders prioritize investments?

Bob Chaput advocates for a risk management-centric approach, emphasizing the need for a strategic reassessment of cybersecurity tools. Mac McMillan sheds light on the...