Critical security tips for provider CIOs using public clouds

Two healthcare CIOs and one deputy CISO offer their expert advice to their peers, explaining how to ensure security is wrapped up tight when working with public clouds. Healthcare provider organizations are beyond the initial security fears when it comes to moving systems and data to a public cloud. There exists now a comfort level that simply wasn’t there even a few years ago.

But healthcare CIOs and CISOs still need to be quite prepared when it comes to using a public cloud. While public cloud operators have taken extraordinary steps when it comes to security, hospitals and health systems still have a job to do on their side when it comes to ensuring that their systems and data are protected.

Here, two healthcare provider CIOs and a deputy CISO offer their expert guidance for working with public clouds based on their experience with these increasingly helpful technological tools.