Tune in to this episode of Health Stealth Radio episode, where guest host Lisa Gallagher from CHIME talks with Dan Bowden, Global Business CISO at Marsh McLennan, about cyber insurance truths healthcare leaders need to hear.
Unlike other industries that refuse to pay ransoms, healthcare CEOs often pursue dual tracks — asking IT to recover systems while simultaneously exploring ransom payment options with legal counsel. Patient care comes first, and cybercriminals know it.
What You’ll Discover:
- Why healthcare organizations almost always pay ransoms — and why cybercriminals know it.
- The insurance benefits most hospitals never use — from incident response teams to executive tabletop exercises that reveal what your CEO really thinks about risk.
- Why your CISO probably isn’t involved in cyber insurance decisions — and how that’s leaving dangerous gaps in coverage.
- The “haves and have-nots” security divide plaguing healthcare, despite HIPAA requirements.
- How AI is accelerating cyber threats without creating new ones, and what that means for your data governance strategy.
- The third-party vendor time bomb — as healthcare relies more on cloud services, downstream breaches create new vulnerabilities most insurance policies don’t adequately address.
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About the Show
Insights from the Shadows of Enterprise and Patient Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity and Privacy have become increasingly complicated not only from a technology perspective but also regarding the purely human responses needed to data breaches. Most healthcare systems don’t care to share insights on how their cybersecurity systems were cracked, and even fewer wish to share how they got their data back whether through sleuth technology or by direct financial negotiations using cryptocurrencies. Join host Frank Cutitta on Health Stealth Radio and his guests as they discuss the more covert and edgy aspects of healthcare security that can’t always be found in vendor sales brochures or the enterprise breach response playbooks of CISOs.
About the Host
Frank Cutitta
Frank has over 40 years of experience in the media, information technology, and healthcare industries. Over the years he launched some of the most iconic IT media brands in 90 countries including Computerworld, PC World, Network World, and CIO. His international career then led him to work in the intelligence sector during his time in the former USSR and Cuba. In addition to being a graduate professor of healthcare informatics and communications, he serves on the board of JBJS, the world’s leading orthopedic journal, and as Co-Chair of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network’s Patient Family Advisory Council. He previously served on the Global Board for HIMSS for 6 years. Connect with Frank on LinkedIn Frank Cutitta.
