Three health systems took home honors at the 2026 CSO Cybersecurity Awards.
The May 11 ceremony in Nashville, Tenn., recognized “security initiatives that delivered measurable results and not just innovation in isolation — across areas such as AI compliance and enterprise risk accountability,” according to the awards’ website.
The health system winners and their awards categories were:
Critical Infrastructure Protection
MultiCare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.): From “Department of No” to “Culture of Yes”: Enabling Modern Healthcare Through Identity-Based Microsegmentation
Cybersecurity
Penn Medicine (Philadelphia): Dark Web Identity Defense — Real-Time Identity Exposure Detection and Remediation
Next-Generation Security
Baptist Memorial Health Care (Memphis, Tenn.): Innovation Unlocked: Pioneering AI Automation in Healthcare Security
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