AI is changing how healthcare operates and how adversaries attack it. With average healthcare ransomware demands approaching $17 million, can healthcare security teams detect and respond to attacks as quickly as AI-enabled adversaries can carry them out?

Join us for a virtual session on how AI is changing healthcare security and what it takes to protect patient care and operations, featuring:

• Farzan Karimi, Deputy CISO, Executive Director at Moderna, who leads security at a global pharmaceutical and biotech organization
• Matthew B. Welling, Partner at Holland & Knight, who operates the nation's largest healthcare law practice
• Zach Moreno, AVP Consulting at Bishop Fox, who has spent years testing healthcare defenses firsthand

Attendees will leave with perspectives on:

• Preparing for AI on both sides of an attack. AI healthcare applications introduce new access paths and dependencies across care environments. Adversaries use the same technology to accelerate reconnaissance, social engineering, and exploitation. Where do existing defenses hold up, and which assumptions need testing?
• Planning for disruption before it happens. Healthcare ransomware can combine data theft with interrupted services, putting containment decisions and recovery plans under immediate pressure. Readiness depends on how well security teams and clinical leaders coordinate when their decisions affect patient care.
• Protecting connected care environments. Medical device cybersecurity extends beyond patching, especially when legacy systems support essential care and cannot easily be taken offline. Access restrictions and containment measures must account for device availability, with biomedical engineering and clinical stakeholders involved in planning.
• Setting investment priorities as AI adoption expands. AI healthcare deployments raise questions about who approves new uses, evaluates security implications, and manages access to sensitive information. Clear accountability helps leaders direct healthcare security investment toward the exposures that carry the greatest operational consequences.

These priorities converge in the workflows that health systems depend on every day. As AI healthcare adoption grows, leaders need evidence that their controls protect sensitive information and limit what a compromised account or connected application can reach. That evidence also helps determine where to strengthen existing strategies and where a different approach is needed.

Healthcare ransomware readiness requires response plans that account for compromised identities and data exfiltration, alongside disruption across interconnected services. Medical device cybersecurity belongs in those plans, with escalation paths that reflect the clinical consequences of isolating a device or interrupting a workflow.

This session connects healthcare security strategy to these operational decisions: how to evaluate response assumptions, assign ownership across departments, and prioritize investments that support continuity of care.