DOTmed March 10, 2025
We are living in an era of deep ecosystem reliance.
Change Healthcare showed us that our healthcare systems are reliant on an ecosystem and that we have hidden risks throughout. A single point of failure – one virtual workstation compromised for a failure to require multi-factor authentication – stymied our entire healthcare infrastructure in the most significant event of its kind, ever.
There are myriad government efforts to manage the risks of this global ecosystem reliance.
The National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (NSM-22) acknowledges reliance on adversaries in our critical infrastructure ecosystem and calls for reduction in that risk on a global scale. The Biosecure Act, a bipartisan bill to curb reliance on a small number...