Healthcare's cloud evolution happened gradually - starting in one provider, expanding to others for specific capabilities - creating a distributed architecture with no clear perimeter and fragmented security posture across environments. Traditional next-generation firewalls weren't built for public cloud, focusing on north-south protection while lateral movement threats exploit weeks of invisible reconnaissance across multiple cloud platforms. Healthcare organizations deploy hundreds of disparate cyber tools yet still face blind spots as attackers move east-west between clouds undetected.

The session will cover:

• Implementing distributed cloud firewalls with unified policy enforcement across hybrid cloud architectures;
• Achieving macro and micro segmentation to contain lateral movement without sacrificing performance;
• Integrating DevSecOps workflows with infrastructure-as-code automation to embed security controls into application deployment pipelines.