Blog Security Research How Healthcare Providers Should Think About Balancing Innovation Efforts with Cybersecurity Goals Steve Winterfeld is Akamai's Advisory CISO. Before joining Akamai, he served as Director of Cybersecurity for Nordstrom and CISO for Nordstrom bank, and served as Director of Incident Response and Threat Intelligence at Charles Schwab. Steve focuses on ensuring that our partners are successful in defending their customers and on determining where we should be focusing our capabilities. Steve has published a book on cyber warfare and holds CISSP, ITIL, and PMP certifications. The healthcare industry is at significant risk as the security implications of APIs are not yet fully understood. In 2023, for the 13th year in a row, the healthcare industry experienced the highest data breach costs of all industries, with the average cost hitting US$10.93 million — a jump of more than 53% since 2020.…