From cybersecurity to HIPAA compliance, medical devices to BYOD, there was lots to learn this week as more than 300 healthcare professionals gathered in Boston to tackle the technology and workforce challenges to protecting patient data.

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"We have got to get out of our offices and out to the front lines," Fairview Health Services Chief Information Security Officer Barry Caplin (center) told his fellow CISOs. "Feel their pain. If you haven't gone out to a nurse station or a front desk and seen the frustration, you can't possibly do your security job."

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"Do people pick bad passwords because they're stupid? No," said University of Maryland researcher Jennifer Golbeck. "They pick bad passwords because their job is not picking passwords! Their job is whatever their job is. Should we be asking humans to pick passwords that, by their nature, are hard for people to remember?"

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Statistics presented by Michael Kaiser of the National Cyber Security Alliance:

* 67 percent of men and 77 percent of women in the U.S. said no high school or secondary schoolteacher, guidance or career counselor ever mentioned the idea of a cyber security career.

* 61 percent are unaware or unsure of the typical range of responsibilities involved in a cyber career.

* 69 percent were not offered classes to pursue a career in cybersecurity.

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(Slide courtesy of NCSA)