Healthcare Finance News November 18, 2025
Susan Morse

There is an eternal battle of attackers using AI versus the defenders of AI and cybersecurity, says Benoit Desjardins.

Artificial intelligence can be both friend and foe for cybersecurity efforts, according to cybersecurity expert Benoit Desjardins who kicked off the HIMSS AI and Cybersecurity Virtual Forum on Tuesday.

AI is being used for both offensive and defensive cybersecurity. As a result there’s a constant battle for cybersecurity experts to keep up an with average two breaches a day that threaten to expose personal health information, according to Desjardins, a former hacker.

Once bad actors gain access to a network, they have rapid access to data, Desjardins said. Most hackers can get information within less than five hours. Meanwhile it...

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