"Healthcare Security: Protecting Patient Data and Clinical Operations"

#1727791: "Healthcare Security: Protecting Patient Data and Clinical Operations"

Description:	Learn specialized approaches for securing healthcare environments that balance patient safety, data protection, and regulatory compliance. This session covers top threats to healthcare organizations, the challenge of securing clinical systems, and strategies for protecting patient data across complex care environments. Healthcare security professionals will get practical guidance for implementing security programs that address unique industry challenges while supporting clinical operations. Speakers: Immanuel Chavoya, Threat Detection and Response Strategist, SonicWall Immanuel is a former NASA Supercomputer SRE, supporting one of the USA's Top 10 Supercomputers (Pleiades). He is the author of several cybersecurity-focused articles on topics ranging from Building a Security Program to Container Security, to articles on commodity Ransomware like Yashma. Immanuel is an InfoSec researcher by night; notable research includes identifying over 100+ sites impacted by related Magecart skimming activity. By day, Immanuel has curated his security skill set by spending years with a "boots on the ground" perspective as a Senior Security Analyst and Triage team Lead for the NASA Security Operations Center at Ames Research Center. Immanuel has since expanded his work to the private sector, bringing his expertise to the Product Security team at Intuitive Surgical, continuing his goal of bringing security expertise where risk has a critical impact on human life. While at Intuitive Surgical, Immanuel led the maturation of their Vulnerability Management team for Intuitives "da Vinci" Medical Robots, and helped architect PSIRT and PSOC initiatives. Immanuel has played a key role at Intuitive as Lead Product Security Engineer, authoring key Security Policies and Playbooks, and helping to define a path forward for their DevSecOps initiatives. Immanuel is currently a spokesperson and Product Security Senior Manager at SonicWall, helping to defend against nation-states and Advanced Persistent Threats, vowing to make Zero Days harder for attackers. In addition, Immanuel contributes back to the security community as an elected member of the Silicon Valley ISSA Board of Directors (www.sv-issa.org). The ISSA is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. Kasey Cross, Director of Product Marketing, Palo Alto Networks Kasey Cross is a Director of Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, where she is helping pioneer the AI-driven SOC with Cortex XSIAM. She has over 10 years of experience in marketing positions at cybersecurity companies including CrowdStrike, Imperva, and SonicWALL. She was also the CEO of Menlo Logic and led the company through its successful acquisition by Cavium Networks. She graduated from Duke University.
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Description:

Learn specialized approaches for securing healthcare environments that balance patient safety, data protection, and regulatory compliance. This session covers top threats to healthcare organizations, the challenge of securing clinical systems, and strategies for protecting patient data across complex care environments. Healthcare security professionals will get practical guidance for implementing security programs that address unique industry challenges while supporting clinical operations.

Speakers:
Immanuel Chavoya, Threat Detection and Response Strategist, SonicWall
Immanuel is a former NASA Supercomputer SRE, supporting one of the USA's Top 10 Supercomputers (Pleiades). He is the author of several cybersecurity-focused articles on topics ranging from Building a Security Program to Container Security, to articles on commodity Ransomware like Yashma. Immanuel is an InfoSec researcher by night; notable research includes identifying over 100+ sites impacted by related Magecart skimming activity. By day, Immanuel has curated his security skill set by spending years with a "boots on the ground" perspective as a Senior Security Analyst and Triage team Lead for the NASA Security Operations Center at Ames Research Center. Immanuel has since expanded his work to the private sector, bringing his expertise to the Product Security team at Intuitive Surgical, continuing his goal of bringing security expertise where risk has a critical impact on human life. While at Intuitive Surgical, Immanuel led the maturation of their Vulnerability Management team for Intuitives "da Vinci" Medical Robots, and helped architect PSIRT and PSOC initiatives. Immanuel has played a key role at Intuitive as Lead Product Security Engineer, authoring key Security Policies and Playbooks, and helping to define a path forward for their DevSecOps initiatives. Immanuel is currently a spokesperson and Product Security Senior Manager at SonicWall, helping to defend against nation-states and Advanced Persistent Threats, vowing to make Zero Days harder for attackers.

In addition, Immanuel contributes back to the security community as an elected member of the Silicon Valley ISSA Board of Directors (www.sv-issa.org). The ISSA is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners.

Kasey Cross, Director of Product Marketing,
Palo Alto Networks
Kasey Cross is a Director of Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, where she is helping pioneer the AI-driven SOC with Cortex XSIAM. She has over 10 years of experience in marketing positions at cybersecurity companies including CrowdStrike, Imperva, and SonicWALL. She was also the CEO of Menlo Logic and led the company through its successful acquisition by Cavium Networks. She graduated from Duke University.

More info:

https://dr-resources.darkreading.com/free/w_palo421/

Date added	March 10, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
Source	DarkReading
Subjects	Compliance regulations / Ethics - Various HealthCare Industry News PodCasts / Webcast / Webinar / eSummit / Virtual Event etc.
Venue	April 9, 2026, midnight - April 9, 2026, midnight