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Cyber-safety is patient-safety. On “UnHack,” Drex DeFord, veteran healthcare CIO and infused strategist, breaks down the biggest cybersecurity and risk challenges facing healthcare today. Drex and expert guests explore what happened, why it matters, and how to build real-world resilience. The show's a mostly plain-English, mostly non-technical discussion that dives into the people, process, and technology making healthcare more secure; and it's NOT just for cyber-professionals; it’s for everyone in a healthcare organization, because modern cybersecurity is a team-sport.
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In late July, a small Minnesota water tower stopped responding to its own control panel — and it wasn't alone. Within 48 hours, more than 30 water systems across the state lost control of pumps, lift stations, and chemic
A teenager who flaunted stacks of cash and a diamond "Hack the planet" necklace online turned out to be one of the most damaging cybercriminals on the planet. Peter Stokes, known as Bouquet, was part of Scattered Spider
An AI model was supposed to be locked inside a sandbox, working through hacking challenges to prove how good it was at finding software flaws. Instead, it found a real zero-day, broke out on its own, and landed inside Hu
May 15, 2026: Big news from Drex DeFord, starting May 15th, UnHack the Podcast and the Two-Minute Drill are moving to the 229 Project Podcast Channel. Same show, same mission, same Drex — just one unified home alongside
North Korean threat actors didn't breach a firewall. They built a fake company. UNC1069 spent two weeks constructing a convincing Slack workspace, fake team members, and LinkedIn profiles to earn the trust of Jason Seama
May 5, 2026: What happens when attackers don't just break into your systems, they become you? Josh Howell , Healthcare CTO at Rubrik , joins Drex DeFord to unpack Rubrik's newly announced partnership with the American Ho
May 4, 2026: Lisbeth Votruba , Chief Clinical Officer at AvaSure , joins Bill Russell and Drex DeFord on Newsday to celebrate Nurses Week with a fascinating look at where nursing has been, and where it's going. From Flor
From crippling outages to AI-powered deepfakes, 2025 tested healthcare cybersecurity like never before. This year-end recap explores the moments that mattered most: how teams built resilience during system failures, why
Matthew Lane was 14 when he started probing the edges of online gaming systems. By 20, he had walked out of PowerSchool with data on nearly 70 million students and teachers using nothing but a contractor's stolen credent
April 28, 2026: When a hospital goes dark, the first 72 hours are everything. Laurie Campbell , Senior Manager of Clinical Ancillary Applications and Enterprise Imaging, and Rick McIntosh, VP and the Chief Technology Off
April 27, 2026: Drex DeFord and Bill Russell are back on Newsday, and fresh off the 229 Summit, they're not pulling punches. Healthcare IT has a demand problem. Too many projects, not enough capacity, and an industry tha
While the industry debates frontier AI models and nation-state threats, hospitals are still getting hit by ransomware through the same doors they've always left open. Drex zooms out to what's actually happening on the gr
April 20, 2026: What happens when you layer AI onto broken processes without fixing them first? Angel Mena , MD, CMO of Symplr , joins Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson on Newsday to answer that question wi
The Kim Wolf botnet was the most powerful ever built — 2 million compromised IoT devices, a record-breaking 31.4 terabit DDoS attack, and it had the FBI, Google, and Cloudflare stumped. Drex breaks down how those cheap,
April 13, 2026: Jacob Hansen , Chief Product and Technology Officer at AvaSure , joins Bill, Drex, and Sarah on Newsday for a conversation about the data governance battles quietly reshaping AI. From who owns AI model im
The window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has collapsed — from 63 days in 2018 to negative. Now AI is changing the game entirely. Drex walks through how Anthropic's unreleased model Mythos autonomously
April 8, 2026: Frank Duff , Chief Innovation Officer at Tidal Cyber , and one of the original architects of the Mitre ATT&CK framework, joins Drex DeFord on UnHack to expose an uncomfortable truth: most organizations are
April 6, 2026: The rules of warfare have changed, and health systems are caught in the middle. On this episode of Newsday, Sarah Richardson and Drex DeFord break down two stories that should be on every healthcare leader
April 1, 2026: James Winebrenner , CEO of Elisity , joins Drex DeFord to unpack one of healthcare cybersecurity's most persistent challenges, the sprawling, unseen attack surface hiding inside hospital networks. From unm
Drex makes the case for a role that doesn't exist yet but probably should: VP of Non-Human Resources. As AI agents multiply across health system environments, often deployed by vendors without oversight, the management i
Lisbeth Votruba
Chief Clinical Officer · AvaSure
1 appearance on this show
Drex DeFord
45 appearances on this show
Jacob Hansen
Chief Product and Technology Officer · AvaSure
6 appearances on this show
Steven Ramirez
Beyond the Arc
1 appearance on this show
Zach Lewis
Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer · University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis
1 appearance on this show
Jason Rose
CEO and Board Member of Clearsense · Elders Real Estate
3 appearances on this show
Jason Jones
Chief Analytics and Data Science Officer · Ready Fence Brisbane & Sunshine Coast
1 appearance on this show
Brian Jones
former New York City teacher, Associate Director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture · Sierra Vista Fire & Medical Services
1 appearance on this show
George Pappas
former US immigration judge · Intraprise Health by Health Catalyst
6 appearances on this show
Ryan Bengtson
President and CEO · Panda Health
1 appearance on this show
Ed Gaudet
CEO and founder of Censinet · Senseinet
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Dr. Colin Banas
Chief Medical Officer · DrFirst
1 appearance on this show
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