CyberScape: Health Care

Troy Ament – Fortinet Field CISO for Healthcare brings more than 20 years of experience to Fortinet transforming information technology and security programs, with 14 years in the healthcare sector as an executive overseeing clinical technology implementations and serving as the Chief Information Security Officer at two of the largest integrated health delivery systems in the United States.

Before joining Fortinet, Troy held the positions of Chief Information Security Officer at Beaumont Health and Director, Chief Information Security Officer at Sanford Health where he had oversight of the Security Technology, Security Operations, Identity and Access Management, and Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) Teams.

Troy has been instrumental in forming multiple healthcare cyber securityboards that focus on the medical device and IoT security and national healthcare cyber security task forces and engaging the education sector to produce more healthcare cyber security graduates and professionals.

Troy has extensive public speaking experience at multiple national and regional conferences, speaking to members of congress, senate, and government agencies educating and advocating for healthcare cyber security. He holds degrees in computer information systems from the University of Mary and North Dakota State College of Science.

Joshua Corman is a Founder of I am The Cavalry (dot org), and serves as Chief Strategist for CISA regarding COVID, healthcare, and public safety. He previously served as CSO for PTC, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council, CTO for Sonatype, and other senior roles. He co-founded RuggedSoftware and IamTheCavalry to encourage new security approaches in response to the world’s increasing dependence on digital infrastructure. His unique approach to security in the context of human factors, adversary motivations, and social impact has helped position him as one of the most trusted names in security. He also serves as an Adjunct Faculty for Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, and was a member of the Congressional Task Force for Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity.

Sean Frazier is Federal CSO at Okta. In his role, Sean acts as the voice of the CSO for Okta’s federal business. Prior to joining Okta, Sean spent more than 25 years working in technology and public sector security for companies such as Duo Security, Netscape, LoudCloud/Opsware, Proofpoint, Cisco & MobileIron. Sean has helped lead numerous projects used by the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, including the Fortezza Crypto Card, Defense Messaging System (DMS) and many others. He also has extensive experience in identity and public key infrastructure (PKI), network, applications, mobile and IoT. Sean has testified in front of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on the importance of public/private partnership in protecting the nation’s digital infrastructure. Sean also advises public/private partnership working groups including ACT-IAC, ATARC and many others.

Dr. Grant Huang helps lead an enterprise-focused research strategy for planning, integrating and coordinating VA resources to enhance evidence-based care for Veterans. This enterprise includes field-based research programs at over 100 VA medical centers where pre-clinical, clinical, health services, informatics and genomics research are conducted.  Additionally, he provides leadership for the Cooperative Studies Program (CSP), a clinical research infrastructure supported by ORD that specializes in the design and conduct of multi-site clinical trials and large-scale observational studies.  Altogether, Dr. Huang helps establish transformative research partnerships with VA, federal and industry collaborators to enable innovative scientific opportunities for VA investigators and Veterans.

During his VA tenure, Dr. Huang has been part of the design and conduct of over 100 multi-site national and international clinical studies, establishment of the Million Veteran Program, and implementation of quality standards, including those for International Organization of Standards 9001 registration.  He has authorships in over 125 publications covering clinical, health services and rehabilitation topics in various scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.  These publications have addressed findings across a range of diseases and conditions, research methodologies and innovations and research policy.

Dr. Huang received his education and training from the University of California, Berkeley, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Cornell University. His background is in biostatistics/epidemiology and behavioral medicine/medical psychology with a particular emphasis in musculoskeletal disorders, biomechanical and psychological stress, and work organization. More recently, his interests focus on organizational performance, quality management and improving clinical trials recruitment.  He has also served on various committees including ones with the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, Association for Clinical Research Professionals, Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Ms. Tamara Lilly is the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) for the Office of Audit Services (OAS) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She joined the OIG in April 2019 and oversees the cybersecurity and information technology audit program. The mission is to provide timely, impactful, and relevant cybersecurity and IT audits of the systems, tools, and techniques used by or on behalf of HHS to support healthcare delivery to beneficiaries and reporting for decision making such as telehealth, artificial intelligence, and electronic health records. Prior to HHS, she served as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Department of Homeland Security focused on strengthening its cybersecurity and information technology posture.

Ms. Lilly is a Certified Information Security Auditor. She earned a Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Masters Certificate from George Washington University in Management Information Systems.

Mr. Ronald Pulivarti is the Project Lead Engineer for Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Sector at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE).  Mr. Pulivarti has a strong technical background and cybersecurity experience in multiple high value asset applications.  Prior to NIST, Mr. Pulivarti has worked within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and served in many IT leadership roles for over 20 years.

Beau Woods is Senior Advisor with CISA, Cyber Safety Innovation Fellow with the Atlantic Council, a leader with the I Am The Cavalry grassroots initiative, Founder/CEO of Stratigos Security, and sits on the board of several non-profits. His work bridges the gap between the security research and public policy communities, to ensure connected technology that can impact life and safety is worthy of our trust. He formerly served as Entrepreneur in Residence with the US FDA, and Managing Principal Consultant at Dell SecureWorks. Over the past several years he has consulted with Fortune 100s and governments, organized events at the RSA and DEF CON conferences, and brokered trust among disparate communities.