Welcome to ”Cyber Survivor,” where host Dan Dodson uncovers the stories of resilience and innovation in healthcare cybersecurity. Explore real-world insights from doctors, administrators, and IT professionals on safeguarding data and privacy amid modern digital challenges. Join us for essential strategies and tales of triumph in the fight against cyber threats.
A hospital can sound normal on the outside while everything critical is failing behind the scenes. When cyberattacks hit healthcare, the damage is measured in more than stolen data, it shows up as canceled visits, delayed procedures, and care teams forced to improvise while systems are taken offline. That’s the world behind Cyber Survivor, where healthcare cybersecurity becomes a patient safety story. I’m Dan Dotson, and this season update looks back at the moments that defined season one: t...
11 Jun 2026
Episode 35- How Healthcare CISOs Earn Trust And Funding. With Dr. Dennis Leber
A hospital can survive bad press. It might even survive a tough quarter. What it can’t survive is a cyber event that shuts down care. That’s why we sit down with Dr. Dennis Leber, a longtime healthcare cybersecurity leader with a background in law enforcement and military service, to talk about what “cybersecurity is patient safety” really means when systems fail and clinicians still have to treat people. We unpack how the cyber threat landscape has evolved from on-prem data centers and manu...
28 May 2026
Episode 34- Robots, Paper Charts, And One Very Long Day.
A cyber event doesn’t feel “digital” when you’re the one on the gurney. We’re joined by Jack, who shares his story anonymously after being impacted as a patient during a hospital cyber incident while being treated for prostate cancer. He takes us from pre-surgery nerves to the uncomfortable reality of not fully knowing what’s happening once you’re under anesthesia and relying on a care team, technology, and processes you can’t see. We talk about robotic-assisted surgery and why connect...
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Phil Englert
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