If you’ve seen a sci-fi movie in your lifetime, you know just how scary AI can be. But fact of the matter is that it’s the future. Not even the future, it’s the “now”. According to IT consultancy Gartner, products and services are set to incorporate predictive and prescriptive analytics and machine learning, meant to augment infosec employees and resources. By 2020, they predicted that at least three fourths of security software tools on the market will include predictive and prescriptive analytics based around heuristics, AI capabilities or machine-learning algorithms meant to augment hospitals’ frequently limited security operations and staff.
According to one analyst from Gartner, the rapid transition to cloud-based digital business and tech models are rapidly changing how risk and security functions deliver value in an organization, which has led to a rapid period of disruption in the field. Gartner’s research has found that a preference for security and risk management technologies as cloud computing or software-as-a-service offerings is a popular trend across industries. Another tech-focused consulting firm projected that the transition to cloud computing for applications and infrastructure amid widespread digital transformation will change the nature of hospital IT shops into business lines that purchase cloud services to conduct much of the functionality which they’ve traditionally performed in-house.
As the industry faces a staffing crisis, hospitals need to search for a new crop of advanced security tools. So far, 75% of hospitals don’t actually have a dedicated security professional on staff, and hiring one is an extremely long process because so many of the applicants are underqualified. As high-impact security incidents become more frequent, a demand for effective security technologies and innovations is more and more important.
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