07 Oct Cybersecurity Is The Biggest Challenge For Healthcare Providers
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
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Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 7, 2024
Arguably the biggest single challenge for healthcare providers making their way through the Digital Age is especially near and dear to Vikram Chhabra, general manager of diagnostics products in Microsoft’s health and life sciences division in Burlington, Mass. That would be cybersecurity.
Radiology Today reports that Chhabra mastered the art, science and oversight of the discipline, largely while at Cisco (2001 to 2017) and IBM (2017 to 2021). Even so, he remains humbled enough by the scope and persistence of the threat to admit that the learning curve never flatlines.
“The frontier of large language models is very new and very attractive to bad actors,” he says. The good news, he suggests, is that Microsoft is as methodical and nimble a force as there is in the war between the good guys and the cybercriminals. And its sheer size can be an advantage.
That’s important since financial damages caused by organized gangs and other malicious hackers are projected to top $10.5 trillion by next year, making cybercrime the third largest source of economic impact in the world after the U.S. and China, Chhabra notes, citing a 2024 report from Cybersecurity Ventures.
At Microsoft, he says, investing in cybersecurity is a business decision and a CEO-level mandate.
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