How the generative AI boom changes healthcare cybersecurity

Generative artificial intelligence has exploded in the healthcare sector in recent years, driven by hopes the technology could take on a variety of tasks — from clinical documentation to data analysis — and lessen the industry’s long-standing workforce challenges.

At the same time, healthcare organizations often struggle to manage cybersecurity, burdened by frequent cyberattack attempts as the sector adopts more internet-connected tools.

AI products could be another target for cybercriminals. Meanwhile, hackers can use their own AI to launch cyberattacks. That should create new work and security disciplines for healthcare cyber teams, said Taylor Lehmann, a director of the office of the chief information security officer at Google Cloud.

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