HealthSec 2025: Cybersecurity in Healthcare

In its most basic form, healthcare is gathering data, interpreting data into information, and transforming information into current human knowledge that can be acted upon, with each of these stages open to unintended errors and/or malicious subversion. These stages do not occur within a vacuum but rather within our existing infrastructures and social system with all their current limitations, systemic bias, and exploitable vulnerabilities. While a similar characterization can be made about security in other applied domains, healthcare is undergoing a dramatic transformation, arguably the next technological revolution, presenting immediate opportunities for improvement along with corresponding challenges in security.

Submissions will centre on the following themes, while also considering additional relevant topics: ransomware attacks on hospitals, medical device security, healthcare supply chains and telehealth and hospital at home.