Federal health agencies can achieve positive mission outcomes through innovative cybersecurity approaches and resilience. Agencies can better protect patient data, ensure the continuity of healthcare services, and achieve their mission outcomes more effectively. This session will include a focus on several key cybersecurity areas that are impacting health organizations, including implementing zero trust, consolidating SOC capabilities to enable efficiencies, and leveraging AI to enhance threat detection and operations. The session will also address the evolving landscape of supply chain security, drawing on lessons learned from recent high-profile breaches to underscore the importance of integrating comprehensive security measures across all components of the IT infrastructure. Central to our discussion will be the concept of resilience - specifically how federal health agencies can withstand and quickly recover from cyber incidents. 

Potential Topics: 

• Review lessons learned on the Zero Trust journey 

• Examine how agencies are safely integrating AI and leveraging it to increase efficiency 

• Highlight strategies for fortifying supply chains against vulnerabilities 

• Strengthen cyber resilience in the face of increasingly advanced threats 

• Explore initiatives for recruiting, retaining, and training top cybersecurity talent  

• Discuss how to increase efficiency and enhance performance while also preventing workforce burnout