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Monthly Newsletter – August 2023

August’s Newsletter features:

  • European Summit — Check out the Content-Rich Agenda
  • Fall Americas Summit – Registration Opens August 21st! Don’t Miss Out on Summit Palooza — One Day only
  • Preparedness & Resiliency Exercises – Recap
  • European Council of ISACs – At InfoSec in London
  • New Working Groups – Email Security and OT Security
  • Member Portal Enhancements – Members Can Now Access Secure Chat and Threat Intelligence Portal from within the Member Portal
  • Upcoming Events — Workshops and Webinars

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Gateway to Security

2023 European Summit

The European Summit Committee Assembled a Strong Agenda for October

Don’t miss out on these important discussions and new best practices around healthcare security challenges. Some highlights include :

  • Keynote: Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI)
  • NIS2’s Impact on the EU Health Care Sector Panel
  • How to Leverage Machine Learning to Fight the Phishing War
  • Critical Threat Landscape of AI and GPT Use
  • European Union Cybersecurity Regulatory Landscape
  • From the Trenches of Security Patching

View the FULL agenda here!: https://web.cvent.com/event/3e5fb53c-28a0-4d5d-ad1b-7b82eb63d4ce/websitePage:9d648552-33f9-48d8-802d-47dc00f451f7

Book your room: https://h-isac.org/tmp24/summits/2023-european-summit-hotel/
Stay on site at the seaside Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera! Summit rooms blocks historically sell out fast!

Register here: https://web.cvent.com/event/3e5fb53c-28a0-4d5d-ad1b-7b82eb63d4ce/summary

Gain Early Bird savings through September 15 – only – $200 USD

Fall Americas Summit Registration

One-day sale!

Registration opens August 21st with a SummitPalooza

one-day-only

registration price of

$99 USD

Learn more: https://h-isac.org/tmp24/summits/2023-fall-americas-summit/

Board of Directors

Candidate applications are open through August 18.

Member voting will begin October 16.

Top 10 Cyber and Physical Security Events for the month

United States: Wildfire Season In West On The Verge Of Explosive Development
United States: Hospital Nurses Report Escalating Violence
South Korea: Unionized Health Workers To Begin Nationwide Strike From 07:00 July 13
Greece: Healthcare Workers To Strike Nationwide And Protest In Athens, July 12
New Critical Citrix ADC and Gateway Flaw Exploited as Zero-Days
Google Categorizes 6 Real-World AI Attacks to Prepare for Now
Tracking AI-Enabled Misinformation: 331 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ Websites
95% of Patients Fear They Will Face Data Breach
UN Security Council to Hold First Talks on AI Risks
Data Leak Affects 425,000 Swiss Abroad

Preparedness and Resiliency Exercises

Members engaged in two lively tabletop exercises in July (see photo in Pdf): Waltham, Massachusetts and Bend, Oregon. Participants said they left with multiple improvements to their incident response plans, including the addition of response to a “Wiper Ware” situation.

Register now for the September 20th exercise in New York City. Be sure to invite your Legal department to this exercise as well.

https://h-isac.org/tmp24/hisacevents/ttx-ny/

European Council of ISACs

Health-ISAC joined other ISAC founding organizations of the European Council of ISACs at InfoSecurity Europe in London last month.

Staff from Auto-ISAC Europe, Retail & Hospitality ISAC, FS-ISAC, Aviation ISAC, and Telecommunication-ISAC, along with Health-ISAC shared an exhibit booth, engaging passersby about how ISACs support critical infrastructure organizations (see photo in Pdf version.)

Inaugural European Hobby Exercise

Watch on YouTube https://youtu. be/0ucnzzZUBPg

Member Portal Enhancements

MEMBERS: Now you can seamlessly integrate within the Portal to the Secure Chat and the Threat Intelligence Portal (HTIP). Need help? Send an email to contact@h-isc.org.

Two New Working Groups

OT Security Working Group

Foster and promote best practices in Operational Technology/Industrial Control systems across member organizations.

Email Security Working Group

Gather, explain, and promote information security best practices related to sending and receiving email. This includes, but is not limited to, phishing training, sandboxing, DLP, and DMARC.

Learn more and join in the Member Portal or send an email to contact@h-isac.org.

RESOURCE CORNER

Whitepaper –

Identity Threat Defense: Protect The Latest Perimeter Exploited By Cybercriminals

by Proofpoint, a Health-ISAC Navigator

Podcast: –

Healthcare Summit: Securing Life Sciences, Genomic Data

An interview with the VP of Medical Device Security, Phil Englert.

MORE UPCOMING EVENTS View all Health-ISAC Events here https://h-isac.org/tmp24/events/

August 1 ChatGPT & LLMs: Regulation and Risks Health-ISAC TOC potlight webinar

August 9 Zero DefCon 2023 Member Meetup – Dinner on Us!Members and potential members welcome!

August 10 Zero Trust: Navigating Healthcare Cyberthreats A Navigator webinar with Zscaler and Crowdstike

August 24 The Future of PHI: How Security Leaders Can Navigate a Changing Technology and Regulatory Landscape

Navigator webinar with LuxSci

Monthly Member Events

August 29 – Member Threat Briefing Last Tuesday of each month at 12pm ET

August 31 – ETC webinar  Last Thursday of each month at 12pm ET

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