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"How Concerned are You About CyberSecurity in Your Work?"
We asked this question at several conferences this spring. Clearly, today's pharmaceutical and biotech researchers realize that they play a key role in building precious databases.

Collaborations that include information technology partners continue to grow into a critical backbone within the Pharma and Biotech world. Phrases such as “The Cloud”, “Big Data”, “Wireless” and “Collaboration” dominate the board rooms, resulting in IT groups taking on greater responsibility in managing and securing data in this complex environment.

Join experts from across biomedical research to help integrate the concerns of scientists, enterprise information technologists and patients.

Speakers:

Miranda Alfonso-Williams
Principal Consultant
WAM Consulting Group

Colin Morgan, CISSP, GPEN
Sr. Information Security Manager /
Information Security Officer
Johnson & Johnson

Suzanne Schwartz, MD MBA
Director, Emergency Preparedness/Operations and Medical Countermeasures Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), FDA

Hardik Shah
Dark Matter
LifeMap Solutions
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

John Wilbanks
Chief Commons Officer
Sage Bionetworks

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Symposium, 8:30-2:30

The morning program will address the breadth of issues that concern all who generate, analyze, and share precious research data throughout the process. For both IT professionals and managers, this unique focus upon strategies relevant specifically to the pharma/biotech and device industries will help all responsible parties to deepen their understanding and perspectives.

Workshop, 2:30-5:00 pm
Includes Documentation and a Workbook to help you conduct your own risk analysis: You will work with experts in cybersecurity risk assessment and policy planning to go through the nuts and bolts of developing a resilient and comprehensive strategy. This will be most interesting for IT professionals, though Discovery, Development, and Device managers will benefit from an understanding of the issues facing their teams.

Viewpoint:

Pharma and Biotech companies are pushing the envelope with where they store data, how they collaborate with institutions for clinical trials and how they build technology in medical devices.

The swiftly changing landscape impacts organizational risk level, making it critical to ensure conversations regarding information security are occurring, and that those conversations are driving risk decisions.

To discuss these topics further, The BioPharma Research Council (BRC) is convening Internet of Medical Things: CyberSecurity in Discovery, Development, & Devices, a symposium covering both common industry risks and IT security topics of special interest to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology community.

Topic areas include:

Cybersecurity of Medical Devices
Protecting Patient Data and Safety of the Product
Cloud Computing’s Impact on Pharma-Biotech
Strategies to balance security, safety, privacy, internal controls, and liability
Addressing security challenges in a regulated environment
Clinical trials data protection