Tackling Healthcare's IAM Challenge

Endpoint Security , Events , Governance

Jigar Kadakia of Partners HealthCare on How to Resolve Access Issues for Medical Professionals(SecurityEditor) • July 5, 2019     Jigar Kadakia, CISO & CPO, Partners HealthCare

The traditional IAM strategy has been to tie individual users with a unique device. But that doesn't work in healthcare settings, where doctors and nurses often share multiple devices. Jigar Kadakia of Partners HealthCare talks about how he approaches this critical challenge.

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In an interview recorded at ISMG's NYC Healthcare Security Summit, Kadakia, the CISO and CPO at Partners, discusses:

The unique healthcare IAM challenge; Why privileged access is particularly thorny; How he has addressed these issues in his security and privacy roles at Partners.

Kadakia has more than 17 years of information security experience across multiple industries, with a focus on health care delivery and projects such as HIPAA/HITECH assessments, Meaningful Use assessment, ICD-10 related implementations, privacy program assessments and implementations, IT internal audit, and business associate risk management. Kadakia has spoken at many security and privacy forums/roundtables/conferences, and is a leader in the health care information security and privacy space. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Master in Business Administration from Xavier University. He is CISSP, CIPP and HITRUST Certified. He is also certified in Risk and Information System Controls.