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The core business of healthcare organizations is to care for the medical needs of patients. Yet information security is a key component of any healthcare organization. There are electronic healthcare records (EHRs) and HIPAA privacy regulations, both of which make your average hospital or big healthcare practice an enticing target for hackers looking to steal data. "We are attacked about a million times a day," said Jennings Aske, chief information security officer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Aske joined the organization in 2015 to create a cyber security strategy for the organization, and he used platforms from Splunk which he said was "basically a security analytics platform."