Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May possibly 09, 2014
Spencer L. SooHoo, PhD, Chief Security Officer and Director of Scientific Computing at Cedars-Sinai Health-related Center in Los Angeles, will be a featured speaker at the Los Angeles Chapter of the Data Systems Safety Association (ISSA-LA) Sixth Annual Data Safety Summit on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Hilton Universal City Hotel in Los Angeles. The theme of the one particular-day summit, The Expanding Cyber Threat: Protect Your Company, highlights the financial effect cybercrime has on all organizations: business, nonprofits, government agencies, schools, healthcare and other people. The summit advances ISSA-LAs core belief that It requires the village to secure the village SM.

“We are extremely fortunate to have Spencer speak about the value of healthcare privacy and security, given that he oversees information safety for one of the biggest medical centers in the nation,” stated Richard Greenberg, ISSA Fellow, Los Angeles Board Member, and Summit Co-Chair. “Because Cedars-Sinai was named one of the prime one hundred ‘most wired’ hospitals in 2013, Spencer’s contribution to the Summit is invaluable in locating solutions to protecting patient details privacy and security.”

Dr. SooHoo will speak on the “Details Safety Challenges in a Massive Academic Health-related Center.” His topic is timely and essential in light of recent reports that the FBI sent a private notice to healthcare firms stating the business “is not as resilient to cyber intrusions compared to the monetary and retail sectors, as a result the possibility of enhanced cyber intrusions is most likely.”

There will be a specific Healthcare Privacy and Security Summit as a part of the Safety Summit that will bring with each other leaders in Privacy and Security within government and private business for a day of collaboration, networking and presentations by accomplished privacy and security professionals. There will be a globe class speaker lineup: Eddie Reeves, Reeves Technique Group Terry Gold, founder of iDanalyst LLC Cynthia Stamer, Managing Shareholder of Cynthia Marcotte Stamer, Pc Brenda Rose, EIS IT Security Manager at Cedars-Sinai Health Method Eric Read, Associate Director of Audit, Risk Management and Compliance at Cedars-Sinai Wellness Program and James Brady, Location CIO at Kaiser Permanente Orange County.

Dr. SooHoo has been with Cedars-Sinai for over 36 years, starting very first as a biomedical engineer, then a analysis scientist in pulmonary medicine prior to moving into IT to handle a analysis computing facility at Cedars-Sinai before it was merged with the enterprise IT organization. His a variety of roles include managing information networking, security, servers, e-mail, storage, and a information center. A heavy investigation background and years of sensible encounter managing different facets of IT give him a special perspective on safety, when he interacts with the physicians and study scientists at Cedars-Sinai. He strikes a reasonable balance between the all-natural tendency of scientists and clinical researchers to openly share info and the need to have to contemplate regulatory and information security dangers.

Dr. SooHoo earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, a MS in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, and MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

The ISSA-LA Summit is the only educational forum in Los Angeles particularly designed to encourage participation and interaction amongst all four crucial info safety constituencies: (1) business and nonprofit executives, their boards and their trusted advisors (2) technical IT personnel with responsibility for information systems and the data they contain (3) law enforcement and (four) details security practitioners with responsibility for guaranteeing the safety of sensitive info.

Registration is open to anybody interested in understanding much more about details security but is specifically advised for company and nonprofit executives and senior managers organization experts in law, accounting, insurance and banking technical IT personnel law enforcement pros fighting cybercrime faculty and students in college and university cybersecurity applications and info security practitioners.

The Data Security Summit is component of ISSA-LAs critical neighborhood outreach program. The purpose of the system is to support the neighborhood keep protected from cybercrime by enabling the necessary collaboration between company, nonprofit and community leaders, technical IT specialists, law enforcement and the data security community.

ISSA-LA is the premier catalyst and data supply in Los Angeles for enhancing the practice of data safety. The Chapter offers educational programs for info safety and IT experts. The Chapter also conducts outreach programs to firms, monetary institutions, nonprofits, governmental agencies, and customers. ISSA-LA is the founding Chapter of the Data Systems Security Association, an international not-for-profit organization of info safety experts and practitioners. For much more info on the Sixth Annual Details Security Summit, please pay a visit to http://www.issala.org/summit and stick to them on Twitter at @ISSALA.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a single of the biggest nonprofit academic healthcare centers in the Western United States. For the fifth straight two-year period, Cedars-Sinai has been named Southern California’s gold regular in healthcare in an independent survey. Cedars-Sinai is internationally renowned for its diagnostic and treatment capabilities and its broad spectrum of applications and services, as effectively as breakthrough in biomedical study and superlative medical education. It ranks amongst the top 10 non-university hospitals in the nation for its analysis activities.





