AL HIMSS 2019 Spring Conference |

AL HIMSS 2019 Spring Conference

April 24, 8:00am, CDT - 4:30pm, CDT

The Dowdle Center at Huntsville Hospital

109 Governors Dr SE

Huntsville, AL 35801

Registration

The Alabama Chapter of HIMSS annual Spring Conference will be in Huntsville on Wednesday, April 24th, 2019 - mark your calendars now!

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General Information: The ALHIMSS 2019 Spring Conference is scheduled to be held on April 24, 2019, at the Dowdle Center at Huntsville Hospital, 109 Governors Drive SE, Huntsville, AL 35801. This conference provides education and training, information and resource sharing, collaboration and networking, and program development for Alabama healthcare professionals and executives.

Reception: Tuesday April 23rd 5:30-7:00pm at the Homewood Suites - beverages & hors d'oeuvres will be served. Follow the sign in the hotel to the reception room. 714 Gallatin Street SW, Huntsville, AL 35801

Conference Location & Parking: view map. Conference takes place in the Dowdle Center at Huntsville Hospital - 109 Governors Drive SE, Huntsville, AL 35801. Parking is available in the lot on Governors Drive across from the Heart Center.

Final Agenda: click here

Don't forget the H-ISAC Healthcare Cybersecurity Workshop on Thursday April 25th from 8:00 - 11:00am - it will also be held in the same location at Huntsville Hospital. Details & registration available here.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Workshop
This high-level overview of various cyber threats facing healthcare such as Ransomware, Phishing, DDoS and others, shows their potential impacts to healthcare organizations. This workshop will include threat actors and motivations for attacks with examples of tactics, techniques and procedure with mitigations and response.

Business E-mail Compromise

Per the FBI, the costliest form of cybercrime stems from a complex type of fraud kown as the "Business Email Compromise" or BEC scam. Participants will learn social engineering tactics and techniques used to attack organizations with BEC, and some ways to help prevent succumbing to these scams.

Importance of Information Sharing

This overview shows how organizations share with stakeholders and the role of information sharing in helping protect healthcare organizations from potential threats, its importance and the timeline of improvements.

Facilitated Discussion Exercise (Incident Response)

Ransomware such as "SamSam" continued to attack organizations with over 25% of all attacks directed at healthcare. This engaging interactive discussion exercise explores best practices in response to a ransomware attack with cross functional players; C-Suite and IT staff.