Johns Hopkins CISO: Don't overlook the critical importance of foundational infrastructure

Johns Hopkins Chief Information Security Officer Darren Lacey describes the security crisis facing healthcare by envisioning a scenario in another industry. 

"Imagine you are incrementally improving your controls in, say, financial management," he says. "And suddenly you wake up and all transactions are now done in bitcoin or some new exotic currency. All those people and processes that worked reasonably well yesterday are now left wanting.

"This is the crisis we face in information security today, especially in enterprise healthcare …

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