Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) thanks retiring Board Member and welcomes new Board Member from The Netherlands
12-7-2022 H-ISAC Board change Dirk De Wit and Marene Allison final 2
Ormond Beach, Florida. December 7, 2022 –
Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), a global,
member-driven non-profit that is the health and public health (HPH) sector’s trusted community for sharing cyber and physical security information, announces a recent change to its Board of Directors.
Health-ISAC Board member, Marene N. Allison, has announced her retirement as VP and CISO, of Johnson and Johnson and will be stepping down from the Health-ISAC Board.
“Marene has been an amazing leader and pioneer for women executives in cybersecurity. We thank her for her contributions to the health sector and to Health-ISAC including serving on the Health-ISAC Board of Directors for the past five years”, says Denise Anderson, President and CEO Health-ISAC, “While she will be missed, we wish her all the best in her well-earned retirement.”
Dirk de Wit, Head of Product Security at Phillips has been appointed to complete Ms. Allison’s Board term. De Wit, who resides in The Netherlands, will begin the 2-year term on December 7, 2022.
“I am very pleased to welcome Dirk de Wit to the Health-ISAC Board”, Ms. Anderson adds, “and I look forward working with him over the next two years.”
Health-ISAC’s Board members represent a diverse global cross-section of healthcare delivery stakeholders in various subsectors of the industry. The Board of Directors serves in a voluntary capacity to provide strategic governance and direction for Health-ISAC’s community using their experience and expertise as security leaders in healthcare organizations within the Health and Public Health (HPH) sector.
ABOUT HEALTH-ISAC
Health-ISAC is a global, non-profit, member-driven organization where health sector stakeholders join a trusted community and forum for coordinating, collaborating, and sharing vital physical and cyber threat intelligence and best practices with each other.
Membership is open to public & private hospitals, ambulatory providers, health insurance payers, pharmaceutical/biotech manufacturers, laboratory, diagnostic, medical device manufacturers, medical schools, medical R&D organizations, and other relevant health sector stakeholders.
Health-ISAC partners with other global security organizations such as governments, law enforcement, other ISACs, and global CERTs to share information, create situational awareness and mitigate against threats and incidents.
Member organizations become stronger by working together, benefitting the entire health sector and its significant role in critical infrastructure worldwide.
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