Defending You and Your Practice: AI and Cybersecurity Threats
Saturday, January 31, 2026
8:00 – 11:00 am
Course Code:
803SL
Cost:
$135
Credits:
3
CE Hours
Cyber criminals are deliberately targeting you as a health care provider. Their goal is to trick your or your staff into giving them patient or financial information and potentially gain access to the computer systems. Their reward is the ransom they can collect from you. If you don’t pay, they know about HIPAA rules threaten to expose your information on the Internet, raising the pressure on you to pay up. The hackers have the benefit of modern AI tools (without safety constraints) and this is making the risks to the practice even larger. They can easily ‘Deep Fake’ the Doctors voice now. Protecting yourself from these risks it more critical than ever. Defending yourself isn’t that hard, and is really just a collection of simple things that when combined start to build an effective defense. During this course, the instructor will cover a handful of steps you can take to protect yourself and your practice from these evils of the internet.
Speakers
After this course attendees will be able to:
- Understand how hackers use your online information to attack you through social engineering
- Discover how AI is assisting the bad guys and how it can impact your personal and practice life
- Identify how you can simply defend yourself from a number of common threats
- Discuss how someone can catch you off guard with an audio deepfake
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