Chief Information Security officer, meredith harper. Welcome, and over to you. Thanks very much, john. Its nice to see you, even virtually. So, today, you have everyones bio. So, i dont think i need to reintroduce our panel. But what theyre going to offer us, i think, is a way to look at the year, and back at the year in a context of cyber and health care, and give us a little bit different way to look at the latest efforts to get the vaccine out to the public. We actually have some news on this today, by the way. Well get to that a little later. Basically, the New York Times reported that Cyber Attacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been going on since august. Its unclear whether this is about ransomware or something more sinister. But well get to that in a minute. What i thought wed do is divide the discussion basically into three parts. Were going to look at the broader issue of cyberthreats and attacks of the Health Care Sector as we sort of wrestle through a pandemic.
You have everyones bio, i dont think i need to reintroduce the panebut it is a way to look at the year in a context of cyber and healthcare and give us a different way to look at the efforts to get the vaccine to the public. Have news that we will get to later, the new rk times reported cyberattacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been gog on since august and it is unclear whether this is about ran somewhere or sothing more sinister but we will get to that in minute. What i thought we would do is divide the discussion into three parts, going to look at thbroader issue, attacks on for healthcare sector as we wrestle through a pandemic, ok at the security and protection of intellecal property related to the vaccine and finay is related to news about hacking the cold cin we will talk about Security Protection and defense of the supply chain for the vaccine. What i would like to do if you have questions i will field those as we along and we may have questions at the end as well
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