CISO Brief September 2026: Cybersecurity Threat Recap & Key Insights
Imagine a whiteboard covered with thousands of colored sticky notes, each one a risk to delivering services. Each one a task that needs to be completed to help keep patients safe. Now, like the sticky note, most healthcare cyber programs aren’t designed to handle the explosion of to-dos from vulnerabilities discovered in 2026. With CVEs […]
CISO Brief April 2026: Cybersecurity Threat Recap & Key Insights
The high-profile cybersecurity incident at Stryker last month was a sharp reminder that cybersecurity events do not need to directly impact connected medical devices to still disrupt patient care. On March 11, Stryker disclosed a cyberattack that caused a global disruption to parts of its Microsoft environment, affecting order processing, manufacturing, and shipping. While the […]
CISO Brief: Regulatory Update on the 2026 National Cybersecurity Strategy
The 2026 National Cybersecurity Strategy focuses on deterring geopolitical adversaries, protecting critical infrastructure, accelerating global technological leadership, modernizing federal systems and their private-sector partners, simplifying cyber regulations, and strengthening the cyber workforce. One of the more important signals for healthcare is that hospitals are increasingly being discussed alongside the energy grid, water utilities, and other critical […]
CISO Brief, March 2026: Geopolitical Tensions and Cyber Vigilance
Operational resilience is being tested at the seams. As we head into March, we continue to see the risk environment being defined through AI adoption pressures, emergency patching realities, and nation-state–aligned actors targeting critical infrastructure. Under the backdrop of increased geopolitical tensions with Iran, this month’s brief will discuss improving resilience through cyber vigilance and […]
February 2026 CISO Brief: Privacy Deadlines, Clinical Impact, and Persistent Attack Paths
As healthcare organizations move closer to the February 16, 2026, compliance deadline for the updated 42 CFR Part 2 requirements, they are doing so in an environment defined by persistent ransomware activity, slow remediation of known exploited vulnerabilities, expanding clinical attack surfaces, and growing use of unmanaged technologies. This month’s Brief focuses on how these […]
CISO Brief: 7 Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026
In 2026, healthcare cybersecurity is shifting from reacting to crises toward building resilience that endures. Innovation, regulation, and collaboration are accelerating, and healthcare leaders across the sector are meeting this moment with renewed clarity and purpose. These seven healthcare cybersecurity predictions reflect how our industry is defending smarter, working together more intentionally, and rethinking what […]
CISO Brief: A Look Back at Healthcare Cybersecurity in 2025, A Year Defined by Disruption
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s impossible not to view the year through a wide-angle lens. Healthcare cybersecurity in 2025 did not follow a clean, predictable arc. Instead, it delivered a series of sharp turns, unexpected pivots, and both hard-earned wins and hard-learned lessons. If 2024 felt volatile, 2025 reaffirmed that volatility is now the default operating […]
CISO Brief: October 2025 Cybersecurity Threat Recap & Insight
October delivered two wake-up calls for healthcare cybersecurity leaders: a critical WSUS remote-code execution flaw that exposed update-chain integrity and a major AWS US-EAST-1 outage that disrupted global services for hours. Together, they underscored a single truth—even trusted infrastructure and cloud providers can become a single point of failure. This month’s CISO Brief for October […]
CISO Brief: Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025
Since the start of 2025, the healthcare sector has continued to experience cyber incidents that have disrupted patient care, exposed millions of records, and reshaped organizational thinking about resilience. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is not just about reminding people of risks; it’s about translating real-world events into actionable lessons. Below is a look back at the […]
CISO Brief: August 2025 Cybersecurity Threat Recap & Fall Outlook
August 2025 underscored a reality for healthcare cybersecurity leaders: AI is an asset and an attack surface. This past month, we witnessed some notable AI realities, including early warning signs of “AI fatigue” as enterprises struggle to realize the promised efficiencies. This month’s themes highlight two sides of the same coin: adversaries weaponizing AI to […]