AI is improving cybersecurity in healthcare, but attackers are using it, too

Chief Healthcare Executive August 1, 2025
Ron Southwick

More health systems are using AI tools to improve defenses, but ransomware groups are using it for phishing, writing malware, and deepfakes.

Artificial intelligence is playing a bigger role in cybersecurity, and hospitals and healthcare organizations are using AI tools to improve their defenses.

Limor Kessem, IBM Consulting’s global lead for cyber crisis management, says the growing use of AI in their cybersecurity strategy is helping healthcare organizations reduce the expense and disruption of breaches. The average cost of a healthcare data breach over the past year was $7.4 million, still the highest of any industry, but down from $9.7 million, according to IBM’s new annual report on the cost of breaches.

Kessem says the use of AI is “paying...

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