# Event Details - **Event Name**: Cyber Security for Healthcare 2026 - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 01 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 am – Wed, 01 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm - **Event Description**: A one-day conference for Healthcare Providers, Healthtechs / Corporates, and academics in the health sector, focusing on cyber securityAbout this EventThe Cybersecurity for Health conference will address cybersecurity challenges, upcoming legislation, and explore best-practise and cutting-edge solutions tailored to the healthcare sector.It is relevant for:Healthtech innovators, Cyber Security Vendors, Technology companies, Medtech, Pharma and Life Science companies, Hospital IT departments, and healthcare administrators.Policy makers, investors, and academic researchers in health technology and cybersecurity.The EU Commission (Jan' 2025) launched a "comprehensive action plan to improve the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers across the EU. As healthcare systems increasingly become targets of cyber and ransomware attacks, this plan aims to strengthen the security of our health systems. In 2023 alone, EU countries reported 309 significant cybersecurity incidents targeting the healthcare sector – more than any other critical sector. As healthcare providers increasingly use digital health records, the risk of data-related threats continues to rise."A Cyber Ireland article noted "The last three years have seen some really worrying milestones. The costs of a data breach in the healthcare industry continue to rise. In 2023, the average cost reached $10.93 million. The frequency is also increasing, with one report noting a 60% increase in phishing attacks between 2022 and 2023, with healthcare being the primary target of these attempts."The conference is organised by the Connected Health & Wellbeing Cluster (DkIT) and Cyber Ireland Cluster (MTU), with collaboration from InterTradeIreland, HIRANI, and Trend AI.AgendaJune 30th, 7:30pm: Pre-Event (optional) Meet-Up / Finger Food @ Gateway Hotel, Dundalk (discounted accommodation rate available for attendees - see FAQ section below ).July 1st9:00-9:30 AMRegistration & Networking / Coffee & Scones9:30 AM - 9:40AMWelcome & Opening Remarks - Cyber Ireland and CHW Cluster_________________________________________________________________________9:40 AM - 10:00 AMKeynote Address: "The Future of Cybersecurity in Healthcare"Vasileios Mingos, European Operations Director, Health-ISAC (Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center) plays an essential role providing situational awareness around cyber and physical security threats to the Health Sector so that companies can detect, mitigate, and respond to ensure operational resilience. They published the 2026 Global Health Sector Threat Landscape report to members in early 2026.The report features data-driven insights from the Health-ISAC Ransomware Events Database, Physical Security assessments, and the Targeted Alerts initiative, which distributed more than 1,200 warnings to the sector in 2025.These findings showcase the community-felt impacts of major threats, including the rise of AI-driven attacks and significant supply chain vulnerabilities.• Insights into emerging threats and trends in healthcare cybersecurity and how organizations can stay ahead of the curve.• Key statistics and case studies highlighting the impact of these threats on patient safety and organizational resilience._________________________________________________________________________Session 1Current State of Play10:00 AM - 10:20 AM"How Innovators and Cyber Security work with the HSE"Marie Lalor, GM responsible for Cyber Strategy & Programmes, CISO Office, HSEWhat standards (technical, regulatory, commercial) are required to work with the HSE on cyber security? What are the HSE expectations in relation to CMMI, NIS2 etc?How does HSE work with:- Healthtech / Medtech Innovators- CyberSecurity companies_________________________________________________________________________10:20 AM - 10:40 AMBreaking the Bot: Hacking a Healthcare AIViktor Spetnijs, Solutions Engineer, Trend AIA walkthrough of prompt injection and related attacks against a purpose-built healthcare AI holding patient records, first showing how an attacker can pull that data out, then running the same attacks again with guardrails in place to show how they're stopped._________________________________________________________________________10:40 AM - 10:55 AM'Ethical Hacking' with Mini Digi Hub / 'Hacker Shack'Attendees will have an option to book one of three additional 20-minute off-site workshops during lunch(max of 15 attendees per workshop).Session Objectives:Understand how easily data can be intercepted on insecure networksSee how personal data appears across the internet (OSINT)Recognise modern social engineering risks (including AI)Leave with 2 – 3 practical actions to improve your security_________________________________________________________________________10: 55 - 11:00 AMCyber Security Special Interest Group – IntroductionsThe Cybersecurity for Health Special Interest Group (CyberHealth SIG) aims to provide a forum for organisations across the healthcare, health-tech and cybersecurity sectors in Ireland to share knowledge, identify gaps and opportunities, and strengthen cybersecurity best practices across Ireland’s healthcare sector. It is managed by the Connected Health & Wellbeing Cluster and , and will unite organisations from both sectors- hospitals and healthcare providers, health-tech, med-tech and cybersecurity companies, regulatory authorities and government agencies._________________________________________________________________________11:00AM - 11:10 AMInterTradeIreland - "Connecting customers, suppliers, innovators, networks and investors across the island"Roslyn Neill; Project Manager - Innovation Programmes______________________________________________________________________11: 10 - 11:40 AMCoffee Break & Expo• Visit Exhibitors, Connect with peers and wider health & cyber ecosystem._________________________________________________________________________Session 2AI in Healthcare & CyberSecurity / AI Governance Frameworks11:40 AM - 12:10 PMPANEL DISCUSSIONChair: Larry Breen - Santegic- HSE Technology & Transformation; Wayne Kearns- Palo Alto Networks; Enda McGahernSecuring AI in clinical environments & digital health productsSecurity risks from shadow AI to agentsAI-driven cyber defence for healthcareAI-enabled cyberattacks in healthcare (Deepfake phishing)_________________________________________________________________________12:10 PM - 12:30 PM |Claude Mythos – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.(Robert Kehoe, Smarttech24/7)Predictions: What the future will look like?The long tail of risk posed by MythosPractical steps and actions;- 3rd party vendor management- Contractual SLAs_________________________________________________________________________12:30 PM - 13:00 PMMedical Device & IoMT Security - (Panel Discussion)Panel Chairperson: Kevin O'Gorman, SW Director - BD- Kim Moylan - Cyber Security Specialist,Compliance & Technical Support, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).- Larry Breen - Santegic- Michael O'Connor- NexGen Cyber- Dhanashree Gokhale - Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA)IoMT devices expand attack surface significantlySecuring connected devices (infusion pumps, imaging, wearables)Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) & lifecycle riskProcurement standards for secure devices_________________________________________________________________________13:00 PM - 13:20 PMHospital CyberSecurity – Best Practise Case Study‘Lessons from the frontline; Cyber Security at Bon Secours’‘ - Dermot Downey, Group Information Security Manager.Bon Secours is Ireland's largest private hospital group with five modern hospitals in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick & Tralee.________________________________________________________________________13:20 - 14:20 PMLunch / Hacker Shack Workshops / Networking_________________________________________________________________________Session 3Future Threats & Technology14:20 PM - 14:40 PM"Embedding Cyber Security into Hospital Strategy"Damien Payne - Group Deputy Head of IT; KINGSBRIDGE Hospital GroupOriginally founded in 2006 under the 3fivetwo Healthcare brand, the company has grown to become Northern Ireland’s largest private healthcare provider and a significant employer in the region. The Group also has a strong presence in the Republic of Ireland via a hospital facility in Sligo, Training Academy satellite services and via the Northern Ireland Planned Healthcare Scheme_________________________________________________________________________14:40 PM -15:00 PMThreats to the Healthcare Sector(Simon Walsh, Head of Solutions Engineering UK & Ireland, TrendAI')A look at why healthcare has become one of the most-targeted critical sectors - the actors, their methods, and what's changed - and how AI is reshaping the threat landscape._________________________________________________________________________15:00 PM - 15:30 PMRansomware & Crisis Response (Panel Discussion)Chair: Robert Kelly; Heart Rhythm International- David McNamara; Founder of CommSec Cyber Security- Vasileios Mingos, European Operations Director, Health-ISAC- Armin Babaei, Nord CSWhy ransomware remains the #1 healthcare threat globallyBoard-level decision makingCrisis communications_________________________________________________________________________15:30 PM - 15:45 PMCharities / Voluntary Organisations & Cyber Security(Sean Brady, CoFounder - CloudAssist)"In Ireland, the charity and voluntary sector is a massive pillar of the healthcare system, delivering roughly one-quarter of acute hospital care, two-thirds of disability services, and up to 80% of residential care. The vast majority of these services are funded by taxpayers, but are managed and operated by not-for-profit organizations rather than the State" (healthmanager.ie).The need for Information Protection to safeguard against data leakage to LLMs using AI Governance, and to protect against insider risk security breaches by treating AI Agents like High Privileged Individuals while implementing Phishing Resistant FIDO authentication to prevent malicious or rogue AI Agents from accessing PII. This subject will be told through a the case-study of a Section 38 charity company who delivers public health or social care services to the HSE under Section 38 of the Health Act 2004.Integration with HSE & Cyber Security'Section 38' Hospitals & Cyber Security_________________________________________________________________________15:45 PM - 16:15 PM - 'International Collaboration and Cyber Security'Panel Discussion - Chair: Breanndán Casey - CHW ClusterDr Paschal McCloskey,Head of Project Delivery, Health Frontiers – Technology Innovation Centre, Ulster University.Professor Paul Miller, Professor in Artificial Intelligence Security,Director, Momentum One Zero,Deputy Director, Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), QUB-Belfast.Robert Kelly, Founder, Heart Rhythm International (HRI)Supported by a €9.1 million investment from the Special EU Programmes Body through the PEACEPLUS Programme, the Health Frontiers project is set to accelerate progress in digital health and MedTech innovation. HF-TIC unites 11 research and clinical organisations across three regions, alongside 25 MedTech SMEs. They include Ulster University (Lead Institution), DkIT, DCU, UCD, ATU, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) and University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) in Scotland, the Southern, Belfast, and Northern Health & Social Care Trusts (NI) , and Health Innovation Research Alliance Northern Ireland (HIRANI).The €10m PeacePlus 'One Health' project is led by Catalyst with partners including Queen’s University Belfast, Atlantic Technological University, University of Galway, Tyndall National Institute, and HIRANI. ONEHEALTH brings together academic institutions, SMEs, and policy leaders to design and deliver innovative health solutions at scale, with a specific priority on AI and Digital Helath solutions.HRI is a partner in CARAMEL, a €12m Horizon Europe research project focused on personalised prevention of cardiovascular disease in women aged 40 to 60. HRI's contribution is a longitudinal cardiac device dataset spanning thousands of patients, enabling predictive modelling for disease progression and treatment outcomes. They are also one of the participating SMEs in the Health Frontiers PeacePus project._________________________________________________________________________16:15 PM - 16:30 PM - Summary / Q&A / Close16:30 PM - 17:00 PM - Networking / Meetings / 'Hacker Shack' with MDL https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/a959d3c0-753c-11f1-a87c-552e322304e6-rimg-w1200-h675-dcffffff-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/a99e08b0-753c-11f1-a6ed-5146a8713f7b-rimg-w1200-h630-dc171718-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/a9dbd500-753c-11f1-a87c-552e322304e6-rimg-w1200-h711-dc8d6318-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/aa144a20-753c-11f1-a87c-552e322304e6-rimg-w1200-h711-dca47d2b-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/dundalk/cyber-security-for-healthcare-2026/100001988468003326 - **Event Categories**: health-wellness, business, nonprofit, charities, workshops, conferences, parties, meetups, exhibitions, it, art, theatre, entertainment, artificial-intelligence, science-fair - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 8 hours - Location: Dundalk Institute of Technology - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 49.24, max: 81.42, currency: EUR ## Event venue details - **city**: Dundalk - **state**: LH - **country**: Ireland - **location**: Dundalk Institute of Technology - **lat**: 53.9842765 - **long**: -6.393370399999999 - **full address**: Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, Dundalk, Ireland ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Cyber Security for Healthcare 2026 - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/733905af2052dbe58eb7ae3d9c222109ba3e36fa1851631d6ce8619a71dc4062-rimg-w1200-h600-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1779959773 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Cyber Security for Healthcare 2026 being held? - **A:** Cyber Security for Healthcare 2026 takes place on Wed, 01 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 am to Wed, 01 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, Dundalk, Ireland. - **Q**: Who is organizing Cyber Security for Healthcare 2026? - **A:** Cyber Security for Healthcare 2026 is organized by CHW Cluster - DKIT. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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