Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

Executive Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity, ISMG

McGee is executive editor of Information Security Media Group's HealthcareInfoSecurity.com media site. She has about 30 years of IT journalism experience, with a focus on healthcare information technology issues for more than 15 years. Before joining ISMG in 2012, she was a reporter at InformationWeek magazine and news site and played a lead role in the launch of InformationWeek's healthcare IT media site.

Medical Devices: Treat Them Like Untrusted End-User Devices

Presented by Jennings Aske , Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , Dave Nathans , Dale Nordenberg, MD , Suzanne Schwartz , Steven W. Teppler • October 4, 2017

Protecting end-user devices is an essential part of any information security strategy. But many healthcare organizations have literally thousands of connected medical devices - from infusion pumps to heart monitors - used in patient treatment that can be vulnerable, opening the door to a broader cyberattack....

Cybersecurity and Patient Privacy in Healthcare: The Balancing Act

Presented by Jennings Aske , Steve Chabinsky , Joshua Corman , Mark Eggleston , Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , Dave Summitt • October 4, 2017

How do you balance privacy with data exchange among clinicians, access for patients and medical breakthroughs for researchers? This session examines whether there's a "right balance" for protecting patients' confidentiality, bolstering cybersecurity and providing individuals with access to their own health data, while...

What's the Next Breach that No One Anticipates? From Ransomware to IoT

Presented by Vikrant Arora , Mark Eggleston , David Houlding , Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , Steven W. Teppler • October 4, 2017

Ransomware has already crippled the ability of some targeted healthcare organizations to access patient records, interrupting delivery of care for days. But will the next iteration of malware attacks bring even more disruption, and perhaps have an even more devastating impact on patients? Cyberattacks involving...

The Evolving Regulatory Environment and Its Impact on Privacy and Security of Online Medical Records

Presented by Vikrant Arora , Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , Mitch Parker , Iliana Peters , Anahi Santiago • October 3, 2017

Data protection legislation and regulatory enforcement actions are rapidly changing throughout the world, having an immediate impact on how organizations globally approach cybersecurity, privacy, breach notification and data storage and protection. Too frequently, however, U.S. healthcare organizations have built...

The Role of 'Intelligent Security'

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • January 1, 2013

An evolving concept known as "intelligent security" involves using a combination of technologies to detect threats, helping security professionals become more proactive. Learn how pioneers are using the new approach.