DEF CON Safe Mode Biohacking Village - Dameff, Tully - How COVID19 Changed Cyber Disaster Medicine

Evangelists for improved security in healthcare have long been concerned about vulnerabilities and impacts stretching beyond privacy and personal health information into the disruption of care and worsening of patient outcomes. As the healthcare system struggles under the burden of the COVID-19 crisis, are there parallels between pandemic preparedness and response and the aims and objectives of healthcare security? Join quaddi and r3plicant, hackers who have been moonlighting as practicing physicians caring for COVID patients, as they discuss what recent experiences and events have taught them about how to reframe and re-address security challenges with the hard-earned hindsight and wisdom of medicine's collective struggles.