SECURETexas

A program that enhances cybersecurity support for rural communities, while providing cybersecurity workforce training opportunities to maintain compliance with state and federal medical privacy and security laws.

SECURETexas

Health care breaches occur almost daily, and hackers are becoming more sophisticated. Health care data is of high value on the dark web and individual and state sponsored hackers are incentivized to especially target health care data. The average time to discover a breach is 210 days, giving bad actors plenty of time to do harm and monetize patient data. Certifications, such as HITRUST, are extremely useful, but expensive and require significant resources to implement and maintain. These certifications are often financially and operationally out of reach for small practices, health centers and rural hospitals. HHS 405(d) is a federal program created, not to replace certifications like NIST, HITRUST, etc., but to provide organizations nationwide with useful and impactful health care and public health centered resources, products, and tools to educate, raise awareness, and provide vetted cybersecurity best practices and strengthen the sector’s cybersecurity posture against cyber threats. SECURETexas uses 405(d) as the structural standard for cybersecurity and maintain best practices.

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2026 Virtual Cybersecurity Symposium – Session Recordings

Missed a session, or want to revisit one? Recordings from each session of the August 26, 2026 Virtual Cybersecurity Symposium are below. Jump to a session:

FBI Dallas Cyber Squad
Health IT Cyberthreats and Resiliency
Real-World Challenges Securing Medical Devices
PULSE: Supporting Clinicians’ Access to Medications and Patient History
AI Cybersecurity Governance
Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Defenses
SecureTexas: Partnerships for Cyber Workforce Development
Post Quantum Remediation – Making the 2031 Deadline: Panel Session

FBI Dallas Cyber Squad

Cyber Intelligence Analyst Kimberly Brown, FBI Dallas Cyber Squad

Kim discusses the national and international threat landscape, and how to engage with your FBI partners to reduce cybercrime. For cyber information sharing, consider joining an ISAO – Texas Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (TX-ISAO) | Texas Department of Information Resources.

Health IT Cyberthreats and Resiliency

Dr. Susan Fenton, UT Houston

Dr. Fenton has an engaging perspective and entertaining presentation on cyber resilience – and why and how you should be thinking about it.

Real-World Challenges Securing Medical Devices

Scott Trevino & Ryan Gonzalez, TRIMEDX

Scott and Ryan provide statistics and real world strategies for managing the internet of things. Job number 1 is an accurate and complete inventory!

PULSE: Supporting Clinicians’ Access to Medications and Patient History

Phil Beckett, CEO, Texas Health Services Authority

Consider including PULSE in your cyber resiliency planning. It is free thanks to our Texas HHSC covering the cost of PULSE and available for emergencies and disasters to help keep your patients safe.

AI Cybersecurity Governance

Don Taylor, UT Dallas

Don digs deep into the fascinating and changing world of AI governance and what you, as an organization, should be focused on.

Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Defenses

Steve Ordahl, Microsoft Health and Life Sciences

Steve delivers practical advice on tools available through Microsoft to improve your cyber hygiene that are either free (to rural facilities) or discounted (to non profits).

SecureTexas: Partnerships for Cyber Workforce Development

Phil Beckett, Greg Garcia (DirectTrust), and Dr. Diane Dolezel (Texas State)

Learn how you can partner with SecureTexas to help grow the healthcare cyberworkforce and be in compliance with HICP, a cyber security framework recognized by the Office of Civil Rights and the Federal Government.

Post Quantum Remediation – Making the 2031 Deadline: Panel Session

Lori Kelly, Amgen; Nathan Lesser, Children’s National; Zak Pantelli, GSK; Stephen Craig, NY Presbyterian – Moderated by Jim St. Clair

The estimate is 2035 for quantum computing to be able to break the encryption on data stored and in transit. One of the challenges is bad actors access the data today and keep it to decrypt in 2035. The time to act is now to update encryption key pairs.