Risk Never Sleeps Podcast

A three-centimeter puncture wound became a nearly thirty-centimeter incision, and the machete was his own. In this episode, Demetri Giannikopoulos, founder of Xrisi Growth and former Chief Growth Officer at Rad AI, talks about why the risk he worries about is a good solution that changes nothing. He traces a career that started the week the HIPAA security rule took effect, when his manager handed...

Shadow IT was hard enough; now there are shadow agents. In this episode, Rob Mireles, Chief Information Security Officer at Lexington Health, talks about reducing the blast radius of an attack while agentic AI expands the identity problem inside the health system. He walks through the zero trust, microsegmentation, and IAM work his team has prioritized, and explains why identity, the least glamoro...

An AI agent inherits whatever access the person prompting it already has. In this episode, Stephen Clark, Director of Security at Children's Health in Dallas, talks about building AI governance inside a pediatric health system where access management, data privacy, and security all sit on his desk. He walks through the three initiatives his team has run for five years: defending the network's edge...

After nine years leading healthcare’s cyber defense efforts and a dozen-plus appearances before Congress, the next chapter calls for fewer policy briefs and more classical guitar. In this episode, Greg Garcia, Executive Director of the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, talks with Ed Gaudet about the final months of his tenure and the life he has been planning beyond i...

Anyone can get pwned, and understanding the psychology behind cyberattacks may be more important than understanding the technology. In this episode, Frank Riccardi, cybersecurity and privacy expert and author of CTRL+ALT+PWN: The Hacker’s Playbook (And How to Beat It), breaks down the tools and psychological tricks cybercriminals use to target everyday people. He explains why basic cyber hygiene,...

AI is changing not only cybersecurity but also the way people interact with organizations and information. In this episode, Heather Hinton, Chief Information Security Officer at Sitecore, discusses the evolving relationship among cybersecurity, AI, business priorities, and human behavior. She discusses why security teams need to return to basics and how to help employees understand the “why” behin...

What if the biggest barrier to healthcare AI isn't the technology itself, but whether people actually adopt it? In this episode, Anurag Voleti, Vice President of Data Science at Xsolis, discusses how AI can reduce friction across healthcare by improving utilization management, length-of-stay decisions, discharge planning, and reimbursement while keeping patient outcomes at the center. He explains...

Healthcare cybersecurity isn't just about stopping attacks; it's about protecting patients and enabling better business decisions. In this episode, Brady Miller, Chief Information Security Officer at Carilion Clinic, discusses the evolving priorities of healthcare cybersecurity, including strengthening governance, risk, and compliance programs and modernizing identity and access management. He exp...

What if the biggest cybersecurity risk in your hospital is simply not knowing everything that's connected to your network? Wes Wright, Chief Health Officer at Ordr and former healthcare CIO and CTO, explains why healthcare organizations need accurate, real-time visibility into every device connected to their networks. He discusses how Ordr combines device-level intelligence with AI-powered agents...

What happens when a cyberattack doesn't just threaten data, but patient lives? In this episode, Dan Holland, Deputy CISO at Tampa General Hospital (TGH), explains why healthcare cybersecurity is ultimately about protecting patients, not just systems. He shares how strong leadership, a collaborative culture, and investing in foundational security have helped build resilience against increasingly so...

What happens when cybersecurity stops being just an IT problem and becomes a matter of patient trust, clinical continuity, and the entire healthcare ecosystem? In this episode, Dr. Mark Yoffe, an internal medicine physician and healthcare cybersecurity advisor, discusses how cybersecurity is reshaping healthcare and challenging the traditional boundaries between technology and human judgment. He e...

Healthcare AI isn’t failing because of the technology; it’s failing because organizations underestimate the human and governance systems required to make it work. In this episode, Michael Meis, Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Kansas Health System, explains how cybersecurity, identity and access management, and AI strategy are converging within a large academic health syste...

What happens to your organization's data after a laptop, server, or hard drive reaches the end of its life, and could AI still recover information you thought was gone forever? In this episode, Gus Thompson, Executive Vice President-Client Strategy at Maxxum, discusses how Maxxum helps organizations securely dispose of and remarket end-of-life technology assets through IT Asset Disposition (ITAD)...

As AI rapidly transforms healthcare, cybersecurity leaders must balance innovation with governance, patient safety, and mission-driven care. In this episode, Michael Prakhye, Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Information Security at Adventist HealthCare, shares how his background in healthcare IT, the Department of Defense, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology sh...

What happens when AI systems begin collaborating, coding, learning, and making decisions faster than humans can keep up? In this episode, Allen Roush, Lead AI Researcher at Thoughtworks, explores the rapid evolution of AI agents, autonomous software development, and the challenges of managing increasingly capable AI systems. He discusses how current AI tools are already transforming software engin...

Healthcare revenue cycle work is about to look very different, and AI is driving the change. In this episode, Ben Beadle-Ryby, Co-Founder at AKASA, talks about how generative AI is transforming healthcare revenue cycle management. He explains that legacy, rules-based systems struggle with the complexity of clinical documentation, which can span dozens of records and thousands of words per patient...

What changes when mission-driven discipline meets healthcare’s complexity? In this episode, Blaine Hebert, Vice President and CISO at Onvida Health, discusses his transition from a 27-year career in the Marine Corps to leadership in healthcare cybersecurity. He contrasts the military’s structured, fast decision-making with healthcare’s slower, more complex, and politically nuanced environment. In...

What if the biggest benefit of AI in healthcare is simply giving physicians the ability to look patients in the eye again? In this episode, Chad Dodd, Vice President of Product Management at athenahealth, discusses how AI is being used to simplify healthcare workflows and humanize patient care. He explains how athenahealth’s AI-native platform integrates ambient listening, automated documentation,...

How should healthcare organizations think about cybersecurity when AI is changing the speed and shape of attacks? In this episode, Chip Witt, Principal Security Evangelist at Radware, discusses the evolving threat landscape around APIs, AI, bots, and application-layer attacks. Chip explains why traditional defenses built for human-speed attacks are no longer enough, especially as autonomous agents...

Technology in healthcare only matters when it improves patient care. In this episode, Dave Fox discusses his journey from the software startup world into healthcare technology and why he found his purpose at the intersection of medicine and innovation. He explains how remote patient monitoring and healthcare integration systems help connect critical bedside data with hospital infrastructure. Dave...

What if AI is finally creating the moment to renew the EHR? In this episode, David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Greenway Health, explains how AI is changing the pace, direction, and possibilities of healthcare technology. He shares how Greenway serves the independent ambulatory market, including thousands of providers across specialties, FQHCs, community health centers, and triba...

What happens when a single cyberattack disrupts prescriptions, patient care, reimbursements, and entire healthcare workflows across the country? In this episode, Greg Garcia, Executive Director of the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, explains how the healthcare industry is rethinking cyber resilience following the Change Healthcare attack, which exposed dangerous ope...

What happens when a hospital turns on thousands of AI licenses overnight before the security team is ready? In this episode, James Pham, CEO and Co-founder of Opsin, explains how healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting enterprise AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Claude while struggling to manage the security risks they entail. James shares how AI can unintentionall...

What if one of the biggest cybersecurity risks in healthcare is sitting in plain sight? In this episode, Jim La Roe, CEO of Symphion, explains why printers and other IoT endpoints remain among healthcare’s most overlooked cybersecurity and operational risks. He shares that hospitals rely on these devices for critical workflows such as patient admissions, wristbanding, pharmacy labeling, and discha...

AI in rural healthcare is about balance: innovation vs. risk, automation vs. control, and doing more with less. In this episode, Jim Roeder, CIO and VP of IT at Lakewood Health System, discusses how rural healthcare systems are approaching AI adoption, with a strong emphasis on governance, security, and alignment with organizational values. He highlights the challenge of managing both new AI tools...