Abbott’s Tyberg Says the Minimum Viable Company Is the Right Starting Point for Downtime Planning

Chris Tyberg, chief information security officer at Abbott and chair of the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, explains why polling application owners produces unusable downtime plans and what business process owners answer instead. He shares early findings from Operation Vital Signs, the first sector-wide healthcare cyber tabletop, including why sustained response strains organizations far more than the opening hours and how the third-party contact gap still runs on relationships.