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Healthcare and Cybersecurity on a Collision Course

The digitization of all aspects of healthcare - from medical records, to medical devices, to remote healthcare  - is moving this life and death segment of the global economy squarely into the target zone for cyber attacks.  As the threat activity increases, so does the investment in cyber defense technologies looking to secure the technologies and data and the center of digital healthcare.  A great overview of this rapidly emerging market by the Chris Metinko of Crunchbase...

Bob Ackerman, founder of Allegis Capital, remembers exactly when the sector came on his radar. He was having lunch with former Vice President Dick Cheney about seven years ago when the former VP told him that people in national security were concerned about his pacemaker possibly being hacked. “I asked him how real of a threat that was,” Ackerman remembered. “He said, ‘About as real as a heart attack.’ ”

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cybersecurity, healthcaresecurity, allegiscyber