https://www.cyberscoop.com/dhs-coronavirus-vaccine-hackers-josh-corman-rob-arnold-beau-woods/
By Sean Lyngaas
CYBERSCOOP
July 22, 2020
The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency is ramping up
its efforts to protect medical organizations from hacking during the
coronavirus pandemic by hiring multiple security specialists with strong
ties to the health care sector, CyberScoop has learned.
As the race for a vaccine intensifies, DHS’s Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency is turning to Josh Corman, who has long
evangelized for medical-device security, to help expand the agency’s
attempts to secure private-sector networks during the pandemic. Rob
Arnold, a former private executive focused on small business’
cybersecurity, is also joining CISA to advise on how COVID-19 has changed
cyber risk for critical infrastructure companies.
Corman, a former security specialist at IBM, has joined CISA as a visiting
researcher and will play a key role in the agency’s COVID-19 response with
security advice on health care infrastructure, the agency is expected to
announce later Wednesday. Beau Woods, who previously worked on
cybersecurity at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is also expected
to begin working with CISA in the coming weeks, pending administrative
paperwork.
Corman and Woods’ volunteer organization, I am the Cavalry, has connected
white-hat hackers interested in fixing software vulnerabilities with
agencies like the FDA. Now, the pair faces one of their biggest career
challenges yet: helping the broader push to use federal resources to make
hospitals, clinics and drug companies more secure from hacking. The
lessons learned from their work could apply to boosting security in other
sectors.
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