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MAY 22, 2025 | DELTA HOTELS, TORONTO

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HSRS 2025 OVERVIEW

Fortifying HEALTHCARE: Beyond Compliance to RESILIENT SECURITY

As the healthcare sector continues to expand its reliance on digital solutions expand its reliance on digital solutions, the risk of cyber incidents causing a disruption to patient care are increased.. The HSRS 2025 conference, hosted by NKST, will focus on moving beyond compliance-driven security to a proactive and resilient approach. Healthcare organizations face unprecedented cybersecurity threats, regulatory pressures, and digital transformation challenges. HSRS 2025 aims to equip industry professionals with the latest strategies and technologies to protect biomedical research networks, enhance privacy governance, manage third-party risks, protect patient data, and security adopt AI and cloud solutions. The summit will provide an in-depth exploration of the cybersecurity landscape in the healthcare sector, ensuring that organizations remain secure and adaptable in an ever-evolving digital environment.

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ABOUT HSRS 2025

The NKST Healthcare Security & Risk Summit (HSRS) 2025 is a premier industry event dedicated to addressing the unique cybersecurity and risk management challenges in the healthcare sector. 

Building on the success of the inaugural HSRS last year, this summit will convene industry leaders, technology innovators, and security professionals to tackle the most pressing issues in healthcare security. With a rapidly expanding healthcare ecosystem that relies on data-driven decisions, interconnected systems, and digital healthcare services, 

HSRS 2025 aims to foster innovation while mitigating security risks. This year’s event will bring together thought leaders from hospitals, healthcare research institutions, health analytics firms, health tech companies, and long-term care providers. 

Attendees will gain valuable insights into the latest cybersecurity threats, privacy governance best practices, and risk management strategies tailored to the healthcare industry.

Agenda for hsrs 2025

  8:00 AM – 9:20AM

  Breakfast & Registration

9:20 AM – 9:30 AM

Welcome Address

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM

Opening Remarks

9:40 AM – 10:00 AM

Keynote 1 – Crowdstrike

This keynote, presented by Crowdstrike, will take a close look at observed modern attacks specifically against Healthcare organizations locally and globally and the impact they have had to patient care. Attack trends and common methods will be identified and advice on risk mitigation strategies will be presented.

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Cyber Code Grey Preparedness – Practical Measures to Ensure a Secure Recovery

Cyber incidents resulting in code grey are highly impactful to patient care. The business goal is to try and recover and restore normal operation on all necessary systems as quickly as possible. This panel discussion, featuring panelists who have had recent code greys, will discuss key prerequisites that are necessary from both a technical and business perspective to reduce downtime post incident to a minimum

  Morning Break

  10:30 AM-11:00 AM

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Enabling Secure access to clinical data from anywhere & DLP / ZTNA Controls

Many necessary healthcare and enterprise applications are being delivered in the cloud as SaaS services. In addition, access is now required from any devices including personal non-corporate devices. These shifts in work patterns necessitates a change in cyber security design with a move to bring security as close to the endpoint as possible and enforce all desired policies. This panel will discuss how each organization is tackling this problem in their journey towards a ‘zero-trust’ design.

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Resiliency best practices in Identity Management

Most recent cyber breaches have been a result of poor identity management, lack of controls and mismanagement of privileged accounts. With identity being the new perimeter, effective maintenance of user identities is paramount. This panel will dive into the best practices to manage and administer the expanding number of user identities within a healthcare organization.

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Cyber Strategies in Connected Care

Hospitals are not the only organizations to hold vast amount of patient information. The entire connected care spectrum needs to be protected through a patients journey. In this panel members from Long Term Care and Home healthcare will discuss some of the similarities as well as differences of managing a cyber program for a non-acute care organization.

  12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

  Lunch

1:30 PM -1:50 PM

Keynote 2 – WIZ

This keynote, presented by Wiz, will discuss the opportunities and risks of leveraging cloud infrastrucutre and services for healthcare delivery and research. Areas to be mindful of when sending sensitive data into the cloud will be mentioned as well as practical risk mitigation techniques to help fully harness the potential of the cloud to drive innovation securely.

1:50 PM – 2:20 PM

Foundational AI Governance (Privacy and Security)

Nearly all organizations worldwide are struggling to leverage AI for efficiency and productivity while at the same time protecting sensitive information from disclosure. This panel, featuring privacy and security specialists, will explore the steps that all organizations need to take to set up a sustainable and viable AI governance process. This will help cultivate an environment that can utilize the power of AI responsibly while also adhering to patient privacy requirements.

2:20 PM – 2:50 PM

LDG Model, 3 years in. What’s working and What’s to come

It has now been just over three full years since the shared services approach to cyber security maturity at hospitals in Ontario was launched. The Local Delivery Group (LDG) model has moved from a pilot to a fully operational model with formal governance and oversight. In this discussion, several LDG leads will discuss what has worked for them, their approach to offering services to their members, plans for this fiscal year and beyond and any desired changes to the model.

  2:50 PM – 3:15 PM

  Afternoon Break

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM

Keynote 3 – Fortinet

This keynote, presented by Fortinet, will highlight some of the benefits and use cases of healthcare organizations who have transitioned to a full zero trust model. The steps to achieve the model and practical advice on where to start will be presented.

3:30PM – 4:00PM

Implementation of a Resilient HIS System

Recently, several hospitals within Ontario have transitioned to new HIS. This major clinical transformation introduces a new element of risk as most vital patient information will be stored in this system. This is an opportunity to learn from three organizations who have recently migrated to a new HIS. They will discuss what steps they took from a cyber security perspective to ensure that security and privacy were baked into the system from the start.

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Secure Management of Medical Devices & Research Network

The proliferation of medical devices from pumps, to patient monitors to diagnostic imaging devices is growing exponentially. These devices pose unique risks as they cannot be managed in the same was a traditional endpoint workstations; however, they are critical to patient care delivery. Learn from three organizations who are at different stages of their journey to identifying, classifying and securing medical as well as building and other IOT devices.

4:30 PM – 4:50 PM

Closing Keynote – Cisco

Discussion of network security including DNS based attacks and attack surface management

4:50 PM – 5.00 PM

Prize Draw

  5:00 PM – 6.00 PM

  Happy Hour and Appetizers

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

HSRS 2025 is designed for healthcare CISOs, CIOs, and CTOs, IT and security professionals, privacy officers and compliance leaders, biomedical and healthcare research directors, health tech and AI solution providers, risk Management professionals and policy makers and regulators.

WHAT TO EXPECT?

The summit will be structured to maximize engagement and learning:

  • Keynote Presentations
  • Panel Discussions
  • Workshops & Interactive Sessions
  • Exhibition Area
  • Networking Breaks & Roundtable Discussions
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