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Hey everyone, I'm Drex, and this is the Two Minute Drill, where I do three quick stories twice a week, all part of one great community, the 229 Cyber and Risk Community here at This Week Health. Today's drill is brought to you by Fortified Health Security. No matter where you are in your cybersecurity journey, Fortified can help you improve your security posture through their 24 7 threat defense services or advisory solutions.
Delivered through Central Command, a first of its kind platform that simplifies cyber security management and provides the visibility you need to mature your program. Learn more at fortifiedhealthsecurity. com. Thanks for joining me today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. For those of you who don't know me, I'm a 20 year retired Air Force officer, and no, I didn't fly planes.
That's always the first question I get when people find out I was in the Air Force. I actually started those 20 years as an enlisted comm computer guy. I finished my degree at night, and then I was commissioned as a hospital administrator, as an officer. So I wound up being accidentally the hospital administrator who knew something about computers way before.
Chief Information Officer or Chief Information Security Officer was really even a job in healthcare. And so after all these years, after leaving the military and having a pretty okay civilian CIO career, and after being sidetracked in probably the luckiest and greatest unintentional move of my entire life into cyber security over the past several years, I have consistently been an advocate for something like an independent U.
S. Cyber Force. You know, Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Air Force. Space Force. And yeah, way before Space Force, I was rooting for a Cyber Force with my friends in Washington. So I've just posted an opinion piece. It's not by me, it's by other folks. It's totally worth reading about the Cyber Force Feasibility Study and what feels like a very logical progression to me, given the current and foreseeable threat environment.
It's a pretty short read. Give it a go. I'd like to hear your thoughts about the idea of a U. S. Cyber Force. Over on Substack, another vet writes what I think is a pretty good, pretty great insightful story on cyber insurance. He includes a list of red flags to look for when buying insurance, he talks about the importance of NDAs, and he has a whole list of questions to ask when you're going through the process.
It's another good quick read. And in a move that feels a lot like Whiz, saying no to Google's acquisition attempt. A Houston based patch management and remediation company called Action1 has rebuffed 1 billion. from CrowdStrike. They apparently feel like there's a lot of upside left in the business and so they'll stay independent and grow the company, for now.
All the details on that story and all the other stories I talk about are always at thisweekhealth. com slash news. Thanks again to our two minute drill sponsor, healthcare cyber partner, Fortified Health Security, with a 98 percent retention rate and three consecutive best in class awards. Fortified's exclusive focus on healthcare cybersecurity makes them the go to partner for healthcare organizations wanting to strengthen their cybersecurity posture.
Find out more at fortifiedhealthsecurity. com. That's it for today's two minute drill. Thanks for being here. Stay paranoid. I'll see you around campus.