Don’t manage healthcare cyber and operational risk in isolation

A Confidential Peer Network for Healthcare Cyber and IT Leaders

The Healthcare InfoSec Roundtable (HISRT) is a members-only community where healthcare leaders compare approaches, discuss shared risks, and learn from peers facing similar operational, governance, and resilience pressures. In a risk environment where hospitals are increasingly interdependent, HISRT provides a practical, non-commercial setting for candid discussion and peer learning.

Why HISRT matters

Hospital disruption rarely stays contained to one organization. Cyber incidents, vendor outages, infrastructure failures, workforce strain, and financial pressure often create cross-organizational consequences. Yet many of the decisions around those risks are still made in isolation. HISRT exists to close that gap by giving healthcare leaders a trusted setting to compare response strategies, pressure-test decisions, and learn across institutional boundaries.

What Members Get

Confidential monthly discussions
Talk candidly with healthcare peers about operational risk, governance issues, resilience planning, and lessons learned.
Practical peer intelligence
Learn how comparable organizations are responding to similar threats, constraints, and tradeoffs when formal guidance is too slow or too general.
Earlier visibility into emerging risk
Spot patterns sooner around vendor concentration, infrastructure dependency, AI governance, workforce disruption, and cyber-related operational strain.

Relationships that matter during disruption
Build trusted connections before incidents happen, so you already know who to call and what others are seeing when conditions change fast.
Members-only communication channels
Continue discussions outside the meetings through private member communications and shared resources.

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Invaluable Peer Forum

HISRT has become an invaluable forum for connecting with peers across our region. It provides a trusted space where we openly discuss emerging threats, regulations, share practical solutions, and compare real‑world results. These discussions provide helpful insight and awareness. The collaboration and candid dialogue add meaningful context to the rapidly evolving healthcare security landscape.

Craig Kobren

CISO, Christ Hospital

Why leaders join

Because hospitals do not fail in isolation.
Because cyber risk is now operational risk.
Because peer-tested judgment is often more useful than generic guidance.
Because resilience depends on trusted relationships built before disruption occurs.

What is HISRT?

The Healthcare Information Security Roundtable (HISRT) (pronounced HIGH-sert) is a confidential, members-only community for healthcare cybersecurity and IT leaders. Founded in 2014, HISRT provides a practical, non-commercial environment where peers can discuss operational risk, compare response strategies, and share lessons learned across institutional boundaries.

Membership/eligibility

Membership is designed to preserve trust and relevance

To maintain the integrity of the roundtable, members must:

hold a leadership role at a healthcare provider or payer organization, such as CISO, CIO, Director of IT, or a comparable position
be sponsored by a current participant

This structure helps keep the discussion candid, relevant, and high-trust.

How To Join

Joining is straightforward.

1. Get Sponsored

2. Submit Application

3. Join the Conversation

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does it cost to be a member?

A: Membership is free.

Q: What are the requirements to become a member?

A: Membership is intended for leaders at healthcare provider and payer organizations who are responsible for cyber, IT, operational, or related risk. Sponsorship by a current participant is required to preserve trust and relevance in the group.

Q: Why was the HISRT created?

A: HISRT was created to give healthcare leaders a trusted peer forum where they can discuss operational and strategic issues, compare approaches, and learn from others facing similar risk and resilience challenges.

Q: What makes HISRT different?

A: HISRT is confidential, member-driven, and non-commercial. It is designed for candid discussion of real operational weaknesses, governance tensions, and lessons learned, without turning the conversation into a vendor event.

Q: How do members participate?

A: Members participate through monthly discussions, private communications, and member-only content. Many also connect directly with peers between sessions as relationships develop.

Q: What kinds of topics come up?
A: Topics vary with the needs of the group, but often include cyber risk, third-party dependency, operational resilience, infrastructure disruption, governance questions, workforce strain, and other emerging challenges facing healthcare organizations.

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