State of Cybersecurity: Healthcare’s Tactical Defense Summit

Half Day Virtual Summit

When: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Time: 1:00 – 4:30 pm ET

Registration
Healthcare cybersecurity is under siege—and tactical readiness has never been more urgent. Join them for a half-day virtual summit focused entirely on immediate, actionable strategies to defend against today’s most pressing cyber threats.

This isn’t theory. It’s frontline reality.

From ransomware response to access control gaps, phishing resilience to medical device hardening—this summit dives into what healthcare IT teams are actually up against. Each 30-minute session will spotlight a specific tactical challenge, offering guidance you can apply right now to safeguard systems, data, and patients.

What to Expect:

  • Targeted sessions on vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response, and more
  • Practical tools and frameworks to improve audit readiness and operational resilience
  • Expert speakers with real-world experience defending healthcare systems

Whether you’re in the trenches or leading the charge, this summit delivers the clarity and tactical insights you need to move fast and stay secure.

Opening Speaker

Greg Garcia, Executive Director for Cybersecurity of the Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC)

The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Joint Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) is a government-recognized critical infrastructure industry council of more than 470 healthcare providers, pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, payers, health IT entities and government agencies partnering to identify and mitigate cyber threats to health data and research, systems, manufacturing and patient care. The CWG collaboratively develops and publishes free healthcare cybersecurity leading practices and policy recommendations, works with the government on sound policy options, and produces outreach and communications programs emphasizing the imperative that cyber safety is patient safety.

Learn about the resources that HSCC offers free to the community, whether it is cybersecurity best practices, medical device security, mapping systemic sector risk from third party technology and services, incident response protocols and many more.

CHIME CEU Certification

The State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare Virtual Summit 2025 webinar presented by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has approved this event for 4 CHIME CEU towards the following certification programs:

  • Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) Program
  • CHIME Foundation Certified Healthcare Executives, (CFCHE) Program
  • Certified Healthcare Information Security Leaders (CHISL) Program
  • Certified Digital Health (CDH) Program

Certificate holders may claim their CEUs from this program by entering them on the CHIME website at Continuing Education Credits (CEUS)