Jelena Milosevic is a pediatrician and ICU nurse with a lot of experience, having worked at many different hospitals in the Netherlands since 1995, and before that having spent 10 years working in the ICU at the University Children’s Hospital in Belgrade. Over the past three years Jelena has been active in the infosec community and has been applying her infosec knowledge to the healthcare world in order to help improve security for both patients and medical staff. Jelena is a member of the I Am The Cavalry group and a part of the Women in Cyber network.

The challenge of building a secure and safe digital environment in healthcare

The importance of security and privacy, keeping the data safe in healthcare is huge. We also need to be aware, that the criminal can harm the patient in many different ways, for many different reasons, with the goal to harm them, but also doing it by accident, just simple because we did make everything digital, put and connect everything online, without thinking about the need to make it safe and secure.
We need the environment, with the organization that will make possible for infosec professionals to can do their job as best as possible.
With good communication, team work, and good agreements, we can make a stable base to build safe and secure environment in the healthcare