John Riggi, the first national advisor for cybersecurity and risk for the American Hospital Association, has been tracking cyber threats to the AHA's more than 5,000 members, and helping many of them deal with mission-critical tasks such as ransomware recovery and response, for the past five years. Before that, he spent nearly 30 years investigating and disrupting other criminal and national security threats at the FBI and CIA. Riggi – who's scheduled to deliver the opening keynote on September 7 at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum – says he's been concerned recently about a "dramatic increase" in attacks on hospitals and health systems. "They're primarily taking two forms," said Riggi. First, healthcare organizations are facing intensifying risk from "large data theft attacks from foreign-based criminal organizations and adversarial nation state spies that want to steal patient information and medical research for their own purposes." But the attacks that have him most