Zero-Day to Weaponization Is Now Sub-Hour.

September 9, 2026: Russell Teague (Chief Strategist and CISO, Fortified Health Security) sits down with Drex DeFord. Healthcare has been the number-one targeted industry for 13-plus years. Fortified only does healthcare, because no other industry has human life on a 24/7 stack. From there: 40-plus autonomous SOC vendors at Black Hat, a workstation that might be the CT scanner, 97 percent of breaches that never touch the EMR, and a board conversation that has to be about resiliency and patient care, not fear. Zero-day to weaponization is now sub-hour. You will not patch at machine speed.

Guest: Russell Teague (Fortified Health)

Key Points:

• 01:35 Healthcare, Number One for 13 Years

• 05:06 Human in the Loop

• 09:08 97 Percent of Breaches Are Not the EMR

• 13:13 Zero-Day to Weaponization Is Sub-Hour

• 15:47 Talk to the Board About Patient Care

• 17:19 Fear Will Not Win You Money

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