Top healthcare CISO concerns: Finding the data, BYOD risks

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http://healthitsecurity.com/2013/10/29/top-healthcare-ciso-concerns-finding-the-data-byod-risks/

By Dom Nicastro
Health IT Security
October 29, 2013

As information security officer at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, 
Rob Winter has many concerns that are top of mind. “With the data security 
threat landscape constantly changing,” Winter said, “this has varied over 
the years.”

Winter did, however, cite some specific top concerns with 
HealthITSecurity.com. For starters, following the data can be cumbersome. 
Regardless of where data exist, how they are transferred, and who is able 
to access them, concerns only increase as data hit the cloud, mobile 
devices and trusted third parties, Winter said. It makes for a challenging 
environment for ISOs.

“Security solution companies are starting to recognize the risk and 
mitigating controls are in place,” Winter said. “As the products mature 
for the enterprise, corporations will have better control of their data.”

It’s no small task where he works as well. UCSF Medical Center and UCSF 
Benioff Children’s Hospital has approximately 30,000 inpatients per year, 
750,000 outpatient visits per year and 722 licensed beds, according to 
Winter. UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, a 289-bed children’s, women’s 
specialty and cancer hospital complex in the Mission Bay section of San 
Francisco, is under construction and will open Feb. 1, 2015.

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