How one healthcare CISO is navigating the COVID-19 crisis

Gourav Mukherjee is a managing partner at vCISO firm Immersion Security. Since January he has been acting CISO at a private equity-backed healthcare company with hundreds of locations across the US. In addition to managing security for the organization, Mukherjee now must deal with business continuity issues. “They have internal security staff but don’t have the expertise and leadership above a director level and are without a CISO at the moment,” he says.

Mukherjee contracted COVID-19 during a meeting in Florida. He has been in isolation and though he described the experience as akin to having flu and bronchitis at the same time, he is through the worst of it. “I think I was better equipped because I work in the security space and provide virtual services. For me to move some of the in-person meetings that I have in the last week to online wasn’t a big deal.”

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