On Monday, July 20, moments after he had delivered a keynote address to the CHIME Lead Forum-Denver, at the Sheraton Downtown Denver, Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek, the Austin, Tex.-based consulting firm, sat down with HCI Editor Mark Hagland to talk about IT data security.
In his opening keynote address at the Forum, sponsored by the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2—a sister organization of Healthcare Informatics through our parent company, the Vendome Group LLC), Mac McMillan had laid out in the clearest possible terms for his audience of IT executives the growing cybersecurity dangers threatening patient care organizations. Among the key areas of concern he had discussed were “increased reliance”; “insider abuse”; “questionable supply chains”; “device-facilitated threats”; “malware”; “mobility”: “identity theft and fraud”; “theft and losses”; “hacking and cyber-criminality”; “challenges emerging out of intensified compliance demands”; and a shortage of chief information security officers, or CISOs.
