Ms. Durfee, a senior virtual CISO at Fortified Health Security with more than 27 years of experience, works alongside hospitals and health systems to protect operations from cyber threats. In her role, she recognizes that every outage, delay or data breach has real consequences for patients. In response, she helps build practical, risk-based strategies covering vulnerable medical devices, third-party defenses and ransomware preparedness. Ms. Durfee has spoken at ViVE, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, InfoSec Nashville, the ISC2 Security Congress, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and more. She has also contributed insights to Healthcare IT News, Chief Healthcare Executive and Fortified’s “Horizon Reports.” She is a founding member of Women in CyberSecurity, an active member of Bluebird Leaders and a dedicated mentor to emerging professionals in the field. Fortified Health Security has earned “Best in KLAS” for security and managed services from 2022 through 2025, recognition as a “Best Cybersecurity Transparent Leader” by Censinet and KLAS for 2023 and 2024, and a Frost & Sullivan “Customer Value Leadership Award” in healthcare cybersecurity in 2024.
