Continuous Threat Evaluation: New Lessons for DSOs
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Group Dentistry Now Show: The Voice of the DSO Industry
35 min
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8 chapters
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What recent cyber‑attack on a major healthcare company sparked this discussion?
Hey everyone, welcome to Cyberwatch Live. I'm Bill Newman and uh thank you to Black Talent Security for sponsoring this on the Group Dentistry Now show. Uh really excited to have this conversation. Uh we have Brian Caleo who heads up uh Daikoma's DSO team. And and Brian, it's good to see you again. We were just joking backstage. We were just on a podcast two days ago together.
Never gets old, Bill, that's what I say, and I guess I'm backing it up 'cause here we are again. It never gets old to be with you, Bill. And we have
Michael Frigaletto, who is the CEO of Beacon Oral Specialist. Mike, it's it's good to have you on as well. It's gonna be great to get your perspective.
Yeah, thanks for having me. And welcome. I'm glad to be here.
And of course the uh man behind Black Talent Security, uh Gary Salman is on. Hey Gary, how are you doing?
I'm doing awesome, Bill. Great to have you on again.
Never a dull moment in the world of cybersecurity, especially when it comes to uh healthcare. So uh why don't we let you kinda kick things off, get us up to date on what's what's been going on, and then we'll get some really good feedback from both Mike and Brian.
Yeah, look, I think one of the biggest things we've seen in the healthcare industry from a cyber perspective is what happened to Stryker, you know, about two weeks ago with with their attack from Iran, right? As as a retaliation to quote unquote the war. They suffered a uh cyber attack, a relatively new type where they didn't hit them with ransomware. They literally wiped their machines and wiped their devices. The the media's report. Reporting about 80,000 computers wiped clean and Stryker having to rebuild their entire environment, causing supply chain attacks, interruption to surgeries, you know, because they're big on the implant side. Yeah, I mean, this this is really making what we have talked about for years.
All of us have been talking about supply chain attacks, and we've seen it in our industry uh a couple of times between other suppliers um and and practically. practice management software. I think this is a wake up call again. Like, hey, we we we gotta understand what's going on here. We have to put proper measures in place to defend against this. But yeah, that was that was some you know, that was an unbelievable event.
Yeah, I mean, look, it's a it's a form of state sponsored terrorism, you know, if you think about it, right? The other folks were financially motivated. They want to lock your stuff out and make you pay money to give it back to you or whatever, and they're financially incentivized to give it back to you because if they don't, then nobody will pay their bribe the next time or whatever. But in this case, with the unrest we're seeing globally, you know, it's not inconceivable that a lot of these states You know, they can't compete militarily, but they can compete from a cyber standpoint. So a lot of these states they sponsor these destructive cyber programs. And as Gary points out, I mean the motivation here is just retaliation because they're mad, because there's a war going on.
They don't want any money from us for any of their stuff. They just want to destroy maliciously destroy things to hurt our businesses. So it's, you know, yet another reason. Reason, Bill, why you gotta be buttoned up with this cyber protection. And it's it's not the sort of thing, as we've said over and over again, that your IT department should handle. This is an executive level thing that's gotta get your attention. It would be like if you had an in-house counsel that just is your general counsel and you said, Hey, we're gonna do a billion dollar MA transaction. We'll just have our local folks handle that. I mean yet that's not the way it is. Anybody That's ever done a billion-dollar MA transaction knows you got to engage outside counsel and it's dozens of lawyers and a whole team and accountants and everybody else.
This is that type of thing. And I think the striker thing is, you know, yet another wake-up call. Gary, we've been talking about these wake-up calls for three years, and this is yet another one.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What recent cyber‑attack on a major healthcare company sparked this discussion?
0:12–4:13
2
How do state‑sponsored attacks differ from financially‑motivated ransomware?
4:13–9:23
3
Why is a continuous threat evaluation more effective than an annual security check?
9:23–13:27
4
What lessons can DSOs learn from the Stryker wipe‑out incident?
13:27–17:38
5
How should DSOs prioritize risk assessment and independent vulnerability reviews?
17:38–21:20
6
What role does AI play in both expanding threats and defending DSOs?
21:20–25:20
7
How can DSOs translate risk data into actionable, board‑level metrics?
25:20–30:00
8
What practical steps should DSOs take now to protect against future attacks?
30:00–34:43
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