Training

Ron Ross

Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Ross is a Fellow at NIST. His focus areas include cybersecurity, systems security engineering, cyber resiliency, security architecture, privacy, and risk management. Ross leads the FISMA Implementation Project and the Systems Security Engineering Initiative, which includes the development of cybersecurity and privacy standards and guidelines for the federal government, contractors, and the U.S. critical infrastructure.

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Errol Weiss

Chief Security Officer, H-ISAC

Weiss is an executive vice president with Citigroup's IT risk and program management office and brings over 20 years of experience in information Security to this corporate level position. Weiss helps ensure that Citigroup receives the most thorough and highest quality threat intelligence from numerous sources including commercial providers and U.S. Government intelligence operations. He also ensures that threat information is delivered to the right person within Citigroup - an international organization with nearly 400,000 employees. Formerly a senior network security analyst for the National Security Agency, Weiss was responsible for conducting vulnerability analyses and penetrations of highly classified U.S. Government computers and network systems.

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Scott Gillis

District Sales Manager, Exabeam

Gillis is a cybersecurity industry leader with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in creating and leading hyper-performing teams to achieve key company metrics and KPIs. He is widely known across the industry as a successful product and operational leader specializing in creating, rebuilding, and realigning business segmentation models that focus on unique value against clients' business outcomes. Gillis has worked with a plethora of Fortune 500 companies in the transformation of their IT and business initiatives, with an emphasis on increasing revenue, reducing costs, reducing complexity, and increasing operational efficiency.

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Nicholas Heesters

Attorney, Senior advisor for Cybersecurity, HHS Office for Civil Rights

Nicholas Heesters is a certified information privacy professional with over 25 years of experience supporting technology and information security efforts in many diverse industries including financial services, government, defense, education and healthcare. He earned a Master of Engineering in Computer and Software Engineering from Widener University and his Juris Doctor from the Widener University School of Law. Currently, Heesters works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights supporting HIPAA compliance and enforcement activities.

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Josh Corman

Former Chief Strategist, CISA COVID Task Force

Corman, is a founder of the grassroots advocacy group I Am The Cavalry. Most recently, he was the healthcare sector chief strategist at DHS CISA on matters relating to COVID-19 and public safety. He previously served as chief security officer for software and services providers PTC Inc., director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council and chief technology officer at open-source software firm Sonatype. He was also a member of a congressional task force for healthcare industry cybersecurity.

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Sandeep Bhide

VP of Product Management, ProcessUnity

Bhide has spent over 15 years in enterprise B2B SaaS software companies and has deep and broad experience in product management and software engineering. He is responsible for keeping the pulse on current and emerging needs in the third-party management market and delivering high-value product capabilities and solutions that help ProcessUnity’s customers and maintain its leadership position.

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Chris Frenz

AVP of IT Security, Mount Sinai South Nassau

Christopher Frenz currently serves as the AVP of Information Security at Mount Sinai South Nassau where he worked to develop the hospital's information security program and infrastructure. Under his leadership the hospital has been one of the first in the country to embrace a zero trust model for network security. Frenz has also played a role in pushing for the adoption of improved security standards within hospitals and is the author of the OWASP Secure Medical Device Deployment Standard as well as the OWASP Anti-Ransomware Guide.

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Michael McNeil

SVP, Global CISO, Mckesson

Michael McNeil is the Global Product Security & Services Officer for Royal Philips. McNeil leads global product security, ensuring consistent processes are deployed in the Healthcare market. McNeil was the former Global Chief Privacy & Security Officer at Medtronic; Chief IT Security Officer at Liberty Mutual Group; Global Chief Privacy Officer at Pitney Bowes, and Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer of Data Services for Reynolds & Reynolds. McNeil, provided expert testimony before Congress on Cybersecurity; and conducts training presentations worldwide. McNeil is a member of the Department of Health & Human Services Healthcare Cybersecurity Task Force; Chair of the MITA Cybersecurity Committee; Board member of National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

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Anahi Santiago

CISO, Christiana Care Health System

As Christiana Care Health System's Chief Information Security Officer, Anahi Santiago is charged with providing strategic direction and oversight to a comprehensive security program, policy development, standards and controls implementation, training and awareness, regular risk assessment and mitigation, as well as partnerships with internal and external auditors. She also regularly collaborates with state and federal regulatory bodies and actively contributes to proposed state and federal regulations that govern privacy and information security. Before joining Christiana, Santiago provided similar support for the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network at a director level.

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Rob Suárez

VP, CISO, Becton, Dickinson and Company

Rob Suárez is a cybersecurity and privacy professional in the medical device and healthcare IT industry. At BD, Rob serves as Chief Information Security Officer and oversees cybersecurity across the company’s enterprise, IT and manufacturing systems. Rob currently chairs the Cybersecurity Steering Committee for the Medical Device Innovation Consortium and the Cybersecurity Working Group for AdvaMed. He was also one of three leaders to co-chair the public-private Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Med Tech Cybersecurity Risk Management Task Group that issued the seminal Medical Device and Healthcare information Technology Joint Security Plan (JSP) in 2019.

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Rich Boscovich

Senior Attorney, Microsoft

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Errol Weiss

Chief Security Officer, H-ISAC

Weiss is an executive vice president with Citigroup's IT risk and program management office and brings over 20 years of experience in information Security to this corporate level position. Weiss helps ensure that Citigroup receives the most thorough and highest quality threat intelligence from numerous sources including commercial providers and U.S. Government intelligence operations. He also ensures that threat information is delivered to the right person within Citigroup - an international organization with nearly 400,000 employees. Formerly a senior network security analyst for the National Security Agency, Weiss was responsible for conducting vulnerability analyses and penetrations of highly classified U.S. Government computers and network systems.

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Vivek Delhikar

Technical Product Manager, Keysight Technoligies

"15 years of experience in the industry: • Application Development • Systems Engineering • Solutions Engineering • Cybersecurity"

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Chris Bowen

Chief Privacy & Security Officer, Founder, ClearDATA

An internationally renowned industry expert on the privacy and security of healthcare data, Chris Bowen is one of an elite few who holds multiple certifications in this field. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP). In addition, he holds two prestigious certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Bowen has extensive experience working with large IDNs, payers, life science companies, private practice groups and software companies. He is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) and a faculty member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Health Law Institute.

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Bill Thorn

Senior Security Architect/Healthcare , Trellix

Thorn is a leader in security innovation, risk reduction and program management with more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience. He is an expert in the planning and execution of complex security initiatives, building of global security operations capabilities, and development of cross-functional risk reduction programs. As a respected leader and trusted adviser across multiple verticals, Thorn has advised hundreds of organizations on how best to align their security capabilities with cyber risk management and control initiatives.

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Vikrant Arora

CISO, Hospital for Special Surgery

Vikrant Arora is a credentialed business leader with more than 15 years of experience in developing enterprise security and risk management programs in the healthcare, government and education sectors in North America and Asia. In his former role as the assistant vice president and chief information security and risk officer at NYC Health & Hospitals, an integrated system of 11 hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and home care in New York City, Arora is focused on security strategy, business risks, regulatory compliance and securing clinical systems as well as biomedical devices.

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Peter Halprin

Partner, Pasich LLP

Halprin is a partner in Pasich LLP’s New York office. He represents commercial policyholders with a focus on recovery strategies in relation to cyber breaches and cybercrime, COVID-19 and natural disasters, professional services, regulatory investigations and technology disputes.

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Anahi Santiago

CISO, Christiana Care Health System

As Christiana Care Health System's Chief Information Security Officer, Anahi Santiago is charged with providing strategic direction and oversight to a comprehensive security program, policy development, standards and controls implementation, training and awareness, regular risk assessment and mitigation, as well as partnerships with internal and external auditors. She also regularly collaborates with state and federal regulatory bodies and actively contributes to proposed state and federal regulations that govern privacy and information security. Before joining Christiana, Santiago provided similar support for the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network at a director level.

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Sethu Raman

Executive Director of Risk Management & Compliance, Organon

Sethu Raman is the Executive Director of Risk management & Compliance at Organon. Seasoned leader with 20+ years of industry experience across varied domains that include Cyber Operations, Risk Management, Compliance & Privacy. In his current role, Sethu leads Cyber Operations at Organon. His previous experience includes implementing security, risk and compliance frameworks that balance information protection and promote business agility across medium to large scale enterprises.

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Erik Weinick

Partner and Co-Founder, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group, Otterbourg P.C.

Weinick is a co-founder of law firm Otterbourg's privacy and cybersecurity practice. He also serves on the U.S. Secret Service's New York Field Office's Cyber Fraud Task Force Steering Committee, whose mission is to combat threats to information security through collaboration between the public and private sectors. Weinick's legal experience includes privacy and cybersecurity, bankruptcy, regulatory, and unfair/deceptive trade practices.

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Jennings Aske

CISO, New York-Presbyterian

Aske is the CISO for New York-Presbyterian. Prior to this he was VP Information Security & Chief Security Officer of Nuance Communications as well as Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer of Partners HealthCare. Prior to Partners, Aske was the Chief Information Security Officer for UMass Memorial Hospital. Aske was also the Chief Information Security Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's Executive Office of Health and Human Services, responsible for coordinating information security across the 16 state agencies. Aske is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Scott Nichols

Global Product Security Leader, Danaher Corporation

Mr. Nichols has over 25 years of experience in the Information Security and Healthcare Technology industries. Mr. Nichols leads the Global Product Security program at Danaher Corporation, representing over 30 companies, including 4 medical device manufactures and 8 life sciences companies. Focusing on security by design for Danaher’s medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences, water quality, environmental and applied solutions product portfolios. Mr. Nichols currently serves on the board of directors for Health ISAC and is the chairman for the Danaher Global Product Security Council and serves on the steering committee for the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC). He is a certified healthcare information security and privacy practitioner (HCISPP) and a certified HIPAA privacy security expert (CHPSE).

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Suzanne Schwartz, MD

Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation (OST), FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health (CDRH)

Suzanne B. Schwartz, MD, MBA is the Director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation (OST) at FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health (CDRH). Suzanne’s work in medical device cybersecurity includes raising awareness, educating, outreach, partnering and coalition-building within the Healthcare and Public Health Sector (HPH) as well as fostering collaborations across other government agencies and the private sector. Suzanne has been recognized for Excellence in Innovation at FDA’s Women’s History Month for her work in Medical Device Cybersecurity. Together with Health Canada, Suzanne has represented FDA in co-chairing the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) Work Group on Medical Device Cybersecurity leading to its first international guidance publication in March 2020. She chairs CDRH’s Cybersecurity Working Group, tasked with formulating FDA’s medical device cybersecurity policy and has additionally served as co-chair of the Government Coordinating Council (GCC) for the HPH Critical Infrastructure Sector, focusing on the sector’s healthcare cybersecurity initiatives. Suzanne earned an MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine; an executive MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, completed Cohort X of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative – Harvard School of Public Health & Harvard Kennedy School of Government executive education, and earned in September 2018 a certificate of mastery for completion of requirements at the Federal Executive Institute – Leadership for a Democratic Society.

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