Jigar Kadakia

CISO & CPO, Partners HealthCare

Kadakia has more than 17 years of information security experience across multiple industries, with a focus on health care delivery and projects such as HIPAA/HITECH assesments, Meaningful Use assessment, ICD-10 releted implementations, privacy program assessments and implementations, IT internal audit, and business associate risk management. Kadakia has spoken at many security and privacy forums/roundtables/conferences, and is a leader in the health care information security and privacy space. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Master in Business Administration from Xavier University. He is CISSP, CIPP and HITRUST Certified. He is also certified in Risk and Information System Controls.

The Next Threats

Presented by Chris Frenz , Jigar Kadakia , Michael McNeil • April 11, 2019

What are the new data security, patient safety and privacy worries evolving with each new cyberattack on the healthcare sector? Our panel of experts - Jigar Kadakia, CISO of Partners HealthCare; Michael McNeil, global security officer at Philips; and Chris Frenz, CISO Interfaith Medical Center - will discuss what...

Identity and Access Management - So Many Breaches and So Many Stolen Identities

Presented by Cris Ewell , Jigar Kadakia • April 10, 2019

What approaches are healthcare entities taking with their credentialing and IAM to better verify and manage the identities of patients, clinicians, researchers, vendors and others who want or need access to health and other critical data? Our panelists Cris Ewell, CISO at UW Medicine and Jigar Kadakia, CISO and chief...

Developing a Comprehensive Security Program and Creating a "Culture of Security"

Presented by Geoff Fisher , John Halamka , Jigar Kadakia , Mitch Parker • April 22, 2015

Typically the traditional Healthcare Information "culture" has not been managed or even significantly influenced by centralized IT or InfoSec personnel. The current environment can be heavily fragmented into various functional and geographic groups, each with very different governance programs and priorities which...

The Fraud Ecosystem and Threat Intelligence - Understanding the Underground and Perhaps Even Predicting Targeted Healthcare Attacks

Presented by Christopher Beier , Jigar Kadakia • April 22, 2015

We are possibly approaching a perfect storm of ePHI vulnerability. As the cyber defenses in other sectors mature, the portability of ePHI and its value increases and easy access becomes available from a host of devices, the opportunity of its theft increases. It's almost impossible to defend against an enemy that you...