Cybersecurity event focuses on $5 billion threat to privacy and health care costs

Data breaches cost the health care industry more than $5 billion every year, destroying the integrity of protected health information and impacting consumer confidence. Cyberattackers continue to develop more sophisticated ways to attack health care information and gain access to private data.

To address these threats, Oakland County Medical Main Street is hosting “Cyber Security Hacks in Health Care: Protecting Your Health Data” on Wednesday, June 26, from 8:30 a.m. to
11:30 a.m. at the Velocity Collaboration Center, 6633 18 Mile Road in Sterling Heights. The event is free, but registration is required. Register online at Eventbrite and search for the event.

“There is an enormous need to protect business data, particularly health care data,” said Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson. “We have cyberattacks from malware and ransomware, phishing attacks, misleading websites, cloud threats, and there are new ones every day. I urge you to attend this important Medical Main Street event.”

Keynote speakers are FBI Special Agent Benjamin Simon and FBI Intelligence Analyst Matthew Schwieger, who will discuss the various threats and provide possible solutions. Simon and Schwieger are members of the FBI Detroit Cyber Task Force, which is responsible for criminal and national security computer intrusion investigations in Michigan. They will discuss how organizations can mitigate security threats to their medical information, defend their network perimeter and keep cybercriminals away.

Along with many of the known cyberattacking methods, health care has its own unique considerations: threats to health care security found in medical devices. With pacemakers and other medical devices increasingly becoming more connected to the internet, they face the same threats as other computer systems.

After the keynote speakers, a panel of experts will lead a discussion on how to protect data and information systems. They include Debra A. Geroux, a shareholder practicing in Butzel Long’s Bloomfield Hills office; Chris Burrows, senior vice president of security solutions at CBI Cyber Security Solutions; Eric Eder, founder and CEO at Sequris Group; and Melissa Selke, account executive at Kapnick Insurance Group.

The event will conclude with a Cyber Range tour. The Cyber Range has a unique internet connection that is used for individual and collective training in the best and most current practices of cybersecurity training. This secure “sandbox environment,” which mimics a real-world setting, is stocked with tools and targets to complete safety, performance and efficiency tests to online assets. Testing the degree of security on these connected products is of an ever-increasing importance to countering cybersecurity threats.

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