>> reporter: we're is the semantec holding a competition among its employees to help prevent hackers [ music ] ♪ >> reporter: 40 workers from 10 countries including those from europe and asia arming themselves with skills to fight hacking. >> it is very exciting to play those competitions and there is adrenaline rush. >> reporter: while employees say it's challenging and fun learning to think and act like a hacker is about the business of protecting businesses, semantec says this contest themed of protecting the healthcare industry was planned months before the breach at anthem. >> this one has me in doing security testing for the mobile applications. >> reporter: semantec says hackers are now targeting healthcare because stolen medical records can be sold on the black market for 10 times more than credit card numbers. >> the taking over that patient portal they're taking over the ultrasound machine the electronic medical record database. >> reporter: each person's medical information can sell anywhere from $300 up to thousands of dollars. >> somebody might want to conduct a surgery

it's the latest battleground for security companies which is why silicon valley security giant semantec turned part of its head quarters into a hospital complete with machines a pharmacy and security workers brought in from all over the world to work on solutions today that breeches. >> what we have here is a way to watch an attack as it happens. >> if a bad guy hacks them, we need to be worried about that. >> reporter: the company is also developing a mobile security operation center to one day set up at the scene of a crime; a crime likely committed to steal your personal data. >> the value of medical records is ten times that of any other. >> even credit cards? >> even credit cards. >> >> reporter: hackers move fast. now, companies are working fast to try and catch up. >>> well we know from the recent anthem hack just how widespread these kinds of a hack can be. but can it get into a physical hospital? we'll take a look at that tonight at 6 cloek. back to you. >> thank you, scott. >>> a critical change to the 9-1-1 policy. first, how a post-office policy may have cost a man his life.

about six months ago ourselves semantec announced something called the thread alliance, which is security competitors coming together to form a security isac. your isacs have a lot of vertical information that is very helpful. this is a horizontal viewpoint to share among competitors so all our customers can have that. four new members joined this morning, so we're very happy about that. we invite every security company to become a part of this for the good of all the customers, and we think these are steps forward. of course, getting all that information shared as fast as possible public to public, public to private private to private is a good outcome. to do that, it has to be done in a responsible manner. that's a lot of the discussion here. it would be about how would do that without having companies face baseless liability litigation, but at the same time you can't minimize the sharing perspective. they're usually boiled down to security versus privacy. those are not mutually exclusive concepts. there will be difference of opinion on that but we're not going to get over those unless