Healthcare Professional & Cybersecurity Strategist

Chaunda C.
Dallas

MSIT · Digital Health, IoMT & Clinical AI Risk · Digital First Responder

I didn't leave healthcare.
I learned to defend it.

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Chaunda C. Dallas — Healthcare Cybersecurity Strategist
28
Years in Emergency & Ambulatory Surgical Care
ER Tech → Lead ER Tech → Epic Super User → Clinical Coordinator
50+
Global Defenders Featured Alongside
Midnight in the War Room · Black Hat USA 2026
600+
Women Co-Mentored Through WiCyS
3rd Consecutive Year · 2026
9
IoMT Failure Scenarios — DFR Lab
0 hypotheticals · All built from reality
External Validation

The work came first.
The recognition followed.

★ Featured Defender
Midnight in the War Room
Semperis · Premiering Black Hat USA · August 5, 2026

The work of defending healthcare systems from ransomware, protecting connected medical devices, and bridging clinical reality with cybersecurity strategy was already underway. Semperis recognized it. Selected as one of 50+ global defenders in their groundbreaking cyberwar documentary — exploring what it truly means to defend critical infrastructure when nation-states attack.

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Featured Alongside

Jen Easterly — Former CISA Director
Gen. (Ret.) David Petraeus — Former CIA Director
Chris Inglis — Former National Cyber Director
Dr. Mary Aiken — Cyberpsychologist, INTERPOL Advisor
Marcus Hutchins — WannaCry Hero
50+ Global CISOs & Cyber Leaders
Origin Story

A healthcare professional
who learned to fight back.

For 28 years I worked high-pressure clinical environments — the ER and outpatient surgical care — where physicians, nurses, and leadership depended on my judgment. When ransomware and digital risk began threatening patient safety, I earned my MSIT in cybersecurity to keep protecting patients — same mission, wider perimeter: the bedside, and now every connected system behind it.

ER Tech

Started on the floor. Learned the system from the ground up.

Lead ER Tech & Epic Super User

Clinical decision-making under pressure. Zero margin for error.

Clinical Coordinator

Leadership and scope across ER and outpatient surgical care.

MSIT · Healthcare Cybersecurity

Kennesaw State University. Medical device security concentration.

Healthcare Cybersecurity Strategist

IoMT security, GRC, clinical risk — at enterprise scale.

Featured Defender · Black Hat USA 2026

Midnight in the War Room. Semperis. Global stage.

The Differentiator

The Clinical Eyes
Advantage

Because in healthcare, "system down"
is a patient safety crisis.

In the ER and OR, there is no "IT ticket" for a life-critical system failure. You need security that understands the velocity of care. We bridge the gap between technical defense and clinical reality — approaching cyber risk like trauma triage: prioritize what harms patients first, stabilize fast, build defenses that hold under extreme pressure.

"I call it the Digital First Responder Framework — because that's exactly what it is."

Born from emergency triage principles, the DFR Framework maps clinical emergency response directly onto cybersecurity incident response. It's not a metaphor — it's a methodology. The same instincts that stabilize a crashing patient stabilize a compromised network.

Triage

Rapid Threat Assessment

Identify what's critical, what's stable, what's failing. Prioritize by patient — and patient safety — impact first.

Stabilize

Contain & Control

Stop the bleed. Isolate compromised systems without shutting down care delivery.

Treat

Remediate with Precision

Targeted intervention. Evidence-based controls. No unnecessary disruption to clinical operations.

Recover

Restore & Rebuild Resilience

Return to full operation. Build stronger defenses. Document for the next incident.

Proof · Live Work

Three live builds.
Zero hypotheticals.

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DFR Lab

9 IoMT failure scenarios built from real device dependency. No hypotheticals.

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NightShift Cyber Range

A branching tabletop: ransomware hits the med room. 12 decisions across Triage → Stabilize → Treat → Recover. Rookie, Pro, and Command tiers.

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Healthcare Ransomware Intelligence Tracker

Live threat intel, ranked by clinical impact — not just CVSS.

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How We Engage

Core
Delivery Areas

01

IoMT & Clinical AI Risk

Device and system threat modeling in live clinical environments. AI governance for FDA- and audit-facing products.

  • Threat modeling in clinical settings
  • AI governance & FDA-facing documentation
  • Risk assessments respecting bedside workflows
  • Connected device inventory & vulnerability mapping
02

Healthcare GRC & Audit Readiness

HIPAA, NIST, SOC 2 alignment without operational disruption. Policy clinicians actually follow.

  • HIPAA Security Rule compliance
  • HIPAA Security Risk Assessments — 5-day delivery
  • NIST CSF & SOC 2 framework alignment
  • Policy & control development
  • Federal healthcare subcontract support
03

Incident Readiness & Clinical Resilience

Ransomware and downtime planning for EHR and device environments. Tabletops that prepare real clinical teams.

  • EHR & device downtime planning
  • Executive & clinical tabletop exercises
  • Ransomware response playbooks
  • Nation-state & hacktivist threat briefings
Engagement Models
Subcontract support · Embedded advisor · Short-term assessments · Fractional clinical-security expertise · Remote-first with on-site availability
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Selected Recognition

Industry &
Community Leadership

🎙️

WiCyS 2026 Virtual Conference Panelist

"Behind the Scenes of Midnight in the War Room" — April 2026, with Krista Arndt, moderated by Heather M. Costa (Mayo Clinic)

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Guest Expert — Halcyon Podcast

Last Month in Security · 2024. Healthcare ransomware threat landscape and clinical impact analysis.

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Lead DEF CON Badge Liaison

2025. Volunteer leadership coordinating scholar badge access across Hacker Summer Camp.

🎓

RSA Conference Scholar

Diana Initiative / BlackGirlsHack · 2025. Selected for professional development recognition.

☁️

AWS re:Invent Grant Recipient

2024. Selected through competitive grant program for cloud and technology leaders.

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DEF CON Biohacking Village Volunteer

Active contributor to medical device and healthcare security research at the annual event.

Community Roles

Black Hat USA 2026 · Featured DefenderWiCyS Technical MentorLead DEF CON Badge LiaisonWiSP Lead DEF CON LiaisonGoogle Tech Equity Collective CoachPeople for Change Coalition InstructorHacker Summer Camp ScholarThe Diana InitiativeBlackGirlsHackSemperis HIP Nashville 2026
Subcontract & Federal

Federal
Credentials

EntityChaunda C. Dallas LLC
SAM.gov Status● Active
UEIKV2BR8QU36J7
CAGE Code18D81
WOSB Certification⏳ Pending
Clearance EligibleAvailable Upon Sponsorship

Core NAICS Codes

541512Computer Systems Design
541690Scientific & Technical Consulting
541610Management Consulting
611420Computer Training
541519Other Computer Related Services
621999Other Ambulatory Health Care
Get In Touch

If your infrastructure
touches patients — let's talk.

Healthcare cybersecurity expertise grounded in nearly three decades of clinical experience.

Senior healthcare cybersecurity expertise without the overhead of full-time staff. I never left healthcare — I learned to defend it. Remote-first with on-site availability. Engagements structured to integrate cleanly into existing delivery teams and protect clinical operations.

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