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IHS Leaders Tie Cybersecurity Directly to Patient Care

HealthTech Magazine
Mickey McCarter

At the 2026 Splunk GovSummit in Washington, D.C., Indian Health Service leaders made a clear case: In modern healthcare environments, cybersecurity is inseparable from patient care. IHS CISO Benjamin Koshy and Solomon Wilson, a cybersecurity project manager in the agency’s Division of Information Security, outlined how IHS is aligning security, operations and emerging technologies to support care delivery across a vast and complex network. The agency serves roughly 2.7 million patients across federal facilities in 37 states, spanning highly urban and extremely remote locations. That…