THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM
You see a lot of veterans who end up in the cybersecurity space after they separate from the military .”
According to Meis , it is an adversarial relationship with threat actors , “ whether they ' re financially motivated , hacktivists or just want to watch the world burn , at the core , they are trying to get into our health system and disrupt what we do .”
Whether that ' s stealing patient data or disrupting the availability of systems , monitoring is vital to an effective cybersecurity strategy , or otherwise “ you ' re going to be checking compliance boxes while they ' re somewhere else causing damage ”.
Handling the cyber talent shortage It ' s no secret that there ' s a shortage of cybersecurity talent . Meis remarks that it ’ s probably become the number one risk to the industry over the last two to three years . Within the team , Meis and his colleagues have placed a really big priority on putting people first and making sure that they ' re at the centre of the cybersecurity strategy .
“ A lot of the cybersecurity vendors try to pretend like their tools can run without human intervention , and that sounds great . At the end of the day , you need people to be able to win these adversarial relationships with threat actors . So we support their development , something that ' s often overlooked in corporate culture – specifically within cybersecurity , where people don ’ t always get opportunities to stretch into new roles or to another role within the same team .”
The organisation invests heavily in training so that , for instance , you may be a risk analyst today , but should you want to be a penetration tester tomorrow , that ’ s a possibility . Dedicated horizontal and vertical career progression opportunities prevent
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