Clinical Cybersecurity Expertise
I spent 23 years on night shift in a Level II trauma center in Atlanta, watching how system failures affect patients in real time — then earned my MSIT in Cybersecurity to keep protecting them, now from behind the systems they depend on.
It's not "I know cyber and healthcare." It's: I know what a cyber threat does to a patient, because I lived the clinical side first.
Where I sit
Most people in this space stand fully in one lane. I sit at the intersection of three.
Pure Cybersecurity
Risk, governance, and technical security fundamentals.
Healthcare IT & Compliance
HIPAA, clinical systems, and the regulatory reality of connected care.
Clinical Operations
23 years of bedside, trauma-center reality — where security exposure actually happens.
That intersection is the whole point. Not "I know cyber and I know healthcare" — it's knowing exactly what a system failure does to the person in the bed, because I've stood there when it happened.
Expertise
Healthcare Cybersecurity
- Healthcare security strategy.
- Patient-safety-driven risk thinking.
- Clinical workflow and operational resilience.
- Healthcare threat intelligence — ransomware tracking and TTPs mapped to clinical impact, not just IOCs.
Clinical AI & Medical Device Security
- Clinical AI governance and risk review.
- IoMT and medical device security.
- Connected care and vendor risk.
AI Red Team for Healthcare Growth Lane
- Adversarial testing of clinical AI through the patient-consequence lens.
- OWASP LLM Top 10 mapped to HIPAA, NIST AI RMF, and FDA guidance.
- Anchored by the DFR Lab AI Red Team track.
Cross-Domain Thinking
- Translating clinical experience into cyber language.
- Bringing operational context into security decisions.
- Connecting healthcare, technology, and resilience.
- Youth cybersecurity education — digital safety, social media risk, and security literacy for middle and high school students (People for Change Coalition, supported by Truist).
Sports Technology Security Secondary / Future
- Wearables and athlete biometric data.
- Sports tech privacy and security risk.
- Data protection in performance environments.
Why this lens exists
A pulmonary hypertension diagnosis meant bedside ER shift work was no longer sustainable. It didn't end the mission — it evolved it. The same equipment on this nightstand every night — a Philips SimplyGo and a ResMed AirSense 11 — is the reason connected medical device risk isn't theoretical here. It's lived.
That's the perspective behind Scenario 7 of the DFR Lab: a walkthrough of what a firmware compromise on a connected CPAP device actually looks like, built from the position of someone who depends on the device working correctly every night, not just someone auditing it from the outside.
How the framework thinks about a system
The human body is a useful model for how security systems are supposed to work together — each layer catching what the last one missed.
- Skin → Firewall. The first line of defense.
- Immune System → Antivirus. Detects and responds to known threats.
- Brain & Senses → SIEM. Monitors activity and flags anomalies.
- Central Nervous System → SOC. Coordinates the response under pressure.
- Adaptive Immunity → Threat Intelligence. Learns from what it's already survived.
Every layer will eventually fail somewhere. What matters is what happens after — resilience and coordinated response, not the illusion of an unbreachable perimeter.
What people say
"If I ran a company, I would hire Chaunda C. Dallas. If I was a recruiter, I would work to place her. Your next vCISO, Cyber Strategist, or Senior Security leader is ready to go!"
— Lisa Saurs, Digital Marketing Director"The wearable data spoofing scenario hits close to home... What you built puts that failure mode in front of people who need to feel it, not just read about it."
— Eric Gudmundson, Engineering Director"Authentic vulnerability is a measure of character and courage. Both things you exemplify and model for others."
— Midori Connolly-Babb, Senior Technical Trainer"Amazing journey, Chaunda — you have had!! You are an inspiration to so many global defenders!"
— Bill Keeler, Senior Director, PR/Comms"A special thank you for your ongoing support — a reminder that there is space for all of us to succeed and shine in this field."
— Devonie Nelson, MSM, GRC Engineer"Incredible work, Chaunda — you are so immensely talented!"
— Lucretia Lett, Director of Cardiology Services