Conference Sessions Cybersecurity Principles Modern HTM Leaders Need to Master for Success
Objectives
Learning point #1: After participating in this session, the learner will recognize how to quantitatively improve their HTM cyber program.
Learning point #2: After participating in this session, the learner will understand their role and responsibility as an HTM leader within the broader organization.
Learning point #3: After participating in this session, the learner will be able to identify and improve cybersecurity risk, and enable themselves to stay on top of actors and issues in the broader healthcare cybersecurity landscape.
Session Abstract
In depth exploration of the key elements HTM leaders need to understand to deliver a successful medical device cybersecurity program. Learn how to execute accurate inventory management with a current state assessment, including how vulnerabilities are identified, managed, and tracked. Followed by what it takes for your organization to govern medical devices and the associated policies to support risk management and drive continuous improvement. Concluding with understanding the role HTM leaders and their teams play in the broader cybersecurity ecosystem and how to stay on top of the evolving cyber landscape.
Speaker Profiles

Dennis Fridrich is vice president of cybersecurity for TRIMEDX, an industry-leading, independent clinical asset management company delivering comprehensive clinical engineering services, clinical asset informatics, and medical device cybersecurity. Dennis has nearly 30 years of information technology leadership experience.
Previously, he held positions at AIG Trading Group, General Reinsurance, and a number of small businesses. He earned his Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Western New England University.