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All Episodes

UnHack with Drex DeFord — 103 episodes

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Patient Portals Are Wiped Out in 3 Years | Newsday with 229Project

2

ChatGPT Did Not Come Through Epic's Front Door | Newsday with 229Project

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43% Will Let an AI Give Patients Medical Advice | Newsday with 229Project

4

A Fake Job Offer Put a Children's Hospital on North Korea's List | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

5

AI Agents Built a Secret Message Board to Swap Exploits | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

6

Iran Hackers Hit 30 Local Water Utilities: Preparing Your Hospital | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

7

The Teen Behind Scattered Spider - and How Windows Caught Him | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

8

The AI That Broke Into Hugging Face to Win a Test | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

9

Same Show, New Home — UnHack Moves to 229 May 15th

10

How North Korea's Fake Company Compromised Millions | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

11

The Cyber Attack No One Can Survive Alone | Executive Interview with Josh Howell

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Nurses Week Special on Florence Nightingale and the Future of Nursing | Newsday with Lisbeth Votruba

13

UnHack Rewind 2025: The Year Healthcare Cybersecurity Grew Up

14

What Healthcare Can Learn From a 20 Year Old Hacker | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

15

UnHack the Podcast: Children's Hospital Code Dark Plan with Laurie Campbell and Rick McIntosh

16

Healthcare IT Is Drowning in Projects, Here’s Why | Newsday

17

The Most Likely Way Into Your Network Is Still the Door You Forgot to Lock | 2 Minute Drill

18

Newsday: What Healthcare Gets Backwards - Building Better Care with Angel Mena

19

2 Minute Drill: How a 22-Year-Old Took Down the World's Largest Botnet with Drex DeFord

20

Newsday: AI, EHRs, and the Fight Health Systems Can't Ignore with Jacob Hansen

21

2 Minute Drill: AI has now Hacked the Un-hackable with Drex DeFord

22

Executive Interview: Maximizing Security with the Tools You Already Have with Frank Duff

23

Newsday: Healthcare Caught in the Crossfire of Iran War with Drex and Sarah

24

Executive Interview: Securing Healthcare's Hidden Attack Surface with James Winebrenner

25

2 Minute Drill: Who's Managing Your AI Agents? The Case for Non-Human HR with Drex DeFord

26

Newsday: Hackers Outpace Healthcare Resilience and Surviving a Merger with Drex and Bill

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2 Minute Drill: What Hackers Can Teach Healthcare About Resilience with Drex DeFord

28

Executive Interview: ROI or Bust - Why Emotions No Longer Cut It in Healthcare

29

Executive Interview Live at HIMSS 26’: Zero Breach Cloud Security with Gerry Miller

30

UnHack the Podcast: Building a Security-First Culture in Healthcare IT with Steven Ramirez

31

Newsday: The Conference Nobody Can Afford to Skip with This Week Health

32

2 Minute Drill: Building an Agentic AI Hacker with Drex DeFord

33

How AI Is Supercharging the Same Old-School Attacks with Ryan Witt

34

Executive Interview Live From HIMSS ‘26: From CapEx to Cloud with Tim Calahan

35

Newsday LIVE at HIMSS '26: AI Agents, Workforce Reality, and the CIO Pressure Cooker

36

2 Minute Drill: How a Cybersecurity Researcher Took Down a Hacker with Drex DeFord

37

Newsday: Unsanctioned AI Risk, Governance, and the Path Forward with Dr. Holly Urban

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2 Minute Drill: Accidentally Raising Your Own Robot Army with Drex DeFord

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Newsday: Rapid Innovation, Safe AI, and the Chief Velocity Officer with This Week Health

40

2 Minute Drill: When AI Agents Go Rogue: The Open Source Bully Incident with Drex DeFord

41

UnHack the Podcast: Inside a Real LockBit Attack - Lessons From Fighting Ransomware with Zach Lewis

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Newsday: Epic's Code Red - Why AI Agents Are Healthcare's Next Power Struggle with Jacob Hansen

43

Newsday: All About Moltbook, the Social Media for AI Agents with This Week Health

44

2 Minute Drill: Protecting Revenue from Cyber Attacks - The CFO-CISO Partnership with Drex DeFord

45

Newsday: CxOs Being Ignored: Why Speaking Tech Instead of Business Fails in 2026

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2 Minute Drill: When AI Agents Start Teaching Each Other: The Molt Book Issue with Drex DeFord

47

Newsday: Are Health Systems Falling Behind in the Innovation Race? with Jason Rose

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2 Minute Drill: Data Privacy Day - Why Patient Trust Depends on Responsibility with Drex DeFord

49

UnHack (the Podcast): Your Vulnerability Scanner Is Lying to You with Jack Kufahl & Gregory Garneau

50

Newsday: The ROI Ultimatum: Healthcare's New Survival Rule for 2026 with Zahid Rathore

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2 Minute Drill: Cybersecurity Insiders Plead Guilty to Healthcare Ransomware Attacks with Drex DeFord

52

Newsday: OpenAI's Big Healthcare Launch and a New Age of Personal Records

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Newsday: Epic Faces Lawsuits and the AI Proving Ground with This Week Health

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2 Minute Drill: Healthcare's Cybersecurity Workforce Crisis With Drex DeFord

55

This Week Health 2026 Snapshot: Expanding Events, Training, & Community Growth

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Newsday: The $7B ServiceNow-Armis Deal & What's Coming in 2026 with Jason Rose

57

2025 Healthcare Recap: CIO Pressures, AI Advances, and Cultural Shifts

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Reflecting on the 2025 AI Rush: What Worked, What Failed, and What's Next

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Newsday: CMS ACCESS Model & Tech-Enabled Care with Laura O’Toole

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2 Minute Drill: Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Spark a Global Race Against Attackers with Drex DeFord

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Newsday: How PhD-Level AI Agents are Changing Healthcare with Dan Schubert

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Newsday: Preparing for Cloud Outages and Phishing Attacks with Charles Knight

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Solution Showcase: Innovating Data Centers to Data-Driven Care with Brian Jones and Jason Jones

64

Newsday: Streamlining Patient Access and Healthcare Abroad with Will Akers

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2 Minute Drill: How AI-Powered Scams Are Reshaping Healthcare Cybersecurity with Drex DeFord

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Solution Showcase: Pro Security In Your Pocket With Will Houston, Preston Duren, and Spencer Bales

67

Newsday: The AI Staffing Dilemma - The Productivity Paradox with This Week Health

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2 Minute Drill: Insider Threats in Healthcare: Employee Recruitment Schemes with Drex DeFord

69

UnHack (the Podcast): Breaking Down Silos and Building Up Culture with Shawna Hofer

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Newsday: Merger Madness and Why Hospitals are Moving Back to On-Prem Data with Dave Dyell

71

Newsday: Doing More with Less and Budgeting Wake-Up Calls with Bill Willis

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2 Minute Drill: Cybercriminals Weaponize AI: Self-Modifying Malware with Drex DeFord

73

Executive Interview: How Complexity Kills Innovation and Lasting IT Leadership with Kurt Telep

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Newsday: Security Culture Saves Hospital and Resource Gaps with George Pappas

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2 Minute Drill: CISA Extension, Oracle Breach Fallout, and the Wiz Acquisition with Drex DeFord

76

Newsday: AWS Outage Exploration and Removing Risk from Your Data with Vik Patel

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2 Minute Drill: EY Data Leak, India's Cybercrime Villages, and AI Browser Risks with Drex DeFord

78

UnHack (the Podcast): Passion Over Paychecks and Hidden Risk with Mary Dickerson and Gordon Groschl

79

Newsday: The CxO Pulse - Insights and Lessons from 229 Summits with This Week Health

80

Solution Showcase: Smooth and Rapid Growth In the M&A Era with Glen Phares and Brent Lamm

81

2 Minute Drill: Pokemon Go's Hidden Agenda: How AR Apps Map the World With Drex DeFord

82

UnHack (the Podcast): Zero Trust and the Identity Perimeter with Mary Dickerson and Gordon Groschl

83

Newsday: Why Constraints Drive Innovation - AI Agents and the Jobs They Can’t Fill

84

2 Minute Drill: AI Infrastructure Power Crisis and AWS Updates with Drex DeFord

85

Newsday: MFA Isn't Enough and Why Healthcare Can’t Just Hack Back with Preston Duren

86

2 Minute Drill: Why Your MFA Isn't Stopping Direct Deposit Theft with Drex DeFord

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Newsday: CIO Turnover - Leadership Challenges in a Fast-Paced Era with Laura O’Toole

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2 Minute Drill: Preparing Your Team for the Synthetic Media Tidal Wave with Drex DeFord

89

Executive Interview: Solving Healthcare's Identity Access Management Complexity with Bill Willis

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Newsday: IT Expecting 18% Hiring Cut and Innovating Access in the AI World with Bill Willis

91

2 Minute Drill: Ascension Lawsuit Moves Forward, OneBlood Settlement, and Government Shutdown Impact with Drex DeFord

92

Newsday: The Perfect Storm in Healthcare Cybersecurity: AI, Costs, and Risk with Russell Teague

93

Newsday: Salesforce Breach Spreads and New Liability Era with George Pappas

94

2 Minute Drill: Secret Service Busts Massive SIM Farm Network in NYC with Drex DeFord

95

UnHack (the Podcast): A Peek Behind the Health ISAC Curtain with Sahan Fernando

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Newsday: Virtual Care Integration, EHR AI, and Rural Healthcare with Jacob Hansen

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2 Minute Drill: Why AI "Hallucinates" and How Healthcare Leaders Can Stay Safe with Drex DeFord

98

Newsday: Possible Government Shutdown and Epic's Big Ambient Push with Ryan Bengtson

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2 Minute Drill: Qantas' Bold Move to Cut Senior Leadership Bonuses with Drex DeFordAfter Data Breach

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Solution Showcase: The Future of Patient Monitoring with Terri Couts and Rachel Weissberg

101

Newsday: Healthcare Under Siege - Cybersecurity Expert Ed Gaudet on AI Threats & Third-Party Risks

102

UnHack (the News): Help Desk Hacks, Fake IT Workers & AI Ransomware - The New Cyber Threat Playbook

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Newsday: Oracle Questions, VMware Contracts, and Mass CIO Shifts with Drex DeFord