-: My name is Abi and I work in
Information Security for Centra Health.
With living in a connected world,
I think everything's connected to the internet
and my team is responsible for ensuring that
data that's supposed to stay safe stays safe.
All the breaches you hear about in the news,
all the ID thefts that go on,
all the data leaks that happen,
my team is responsible for maintaining
security of that data and ensuring
that that doesn't get out in the open.
You know at the basic level,
we've got what's called axis control list
that guard who connects us what kind of data
and moving past that we've got
very expensive enterprise solutions that
stop everything from malware,
that stop viruses, other threats like phishing.
We've got perimeter controls like
firewalls and web filters, spam filters.
My team essentially manages the
overall architecture for all of that
and ensures that everything's running smoothly.
We spend a lot of time ensuring the safety of our patients.
If you've got something connected to you,
whether it be an insulin pump or a cardiac monitor,
we wanna make sure that that device doesn't harm you.
So we spend a lot of time evaluating those devices
and making sure that the risk from
those devices malfunctioning is
very little to negligible.
Typically we get sample devices from
a vendor that we're evaluating.
We have a pretty good test environment
that we put these devices into and
we kind of run it through the paces and
on a typical day I might be trying to
break into the device without the right credentials,
trying to see if I can make it
do things that the device is not supposed to do.
Even though a lot of these vendors
are big names and have a lot of money behind their R&D,
we like to kind of have that extra
layer of assurances that these
aren't going to hurt our patients.
As a part of an organization that
takes patient safety very seriously,
we love being able to play with these devices
a little bit and try to break them,
try to see where we can get into
'cause a lot of times these are
closed off from us and it's kind of a game
and a great challenge for us to try
breaking into them I guess.