After his introduction, Nakasone discussed the disruptive technology, citing Steve Jobs’s announcement that they were going to reinvent the cell phone. This was revolutionary, said Nakasone. He pointed out that those who adapted and adopted the new technology had a great career. However, organizations that were resistant fought.
«As we think of disruptive technologies, the piece I want to communicate is that there are changes in rapid landscape technology in the health industry. We see how artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity are beginning to transform the way in which it is delivered, manages and accessed health.» «There is a growing demand for efficiency, better patient results and greater security measures,» Nakasone said.
How do we take a look at these challenges and opportunities that the general raised? «How do we make sure that the impact of AI on cybersecurity and medical care is incredibly powerful?» «We need to think differently about a solution,» Nakasone said about ransomware attacks within medical care. «Last year was a tremendously difficult year for the health industry in terms of ransomware. This is the scourge of what we face in the industry today.»
«No other sector has been hit more difficult by ransomware than the health sector. Last year, a 15 percent increase over 630 incidents worldwide, more than 460 only in the United States health sector.»
General Nakasone recommended a recently published report by Microsoft entitled The cybersecurity landscape of the Rural Hospital. «It is a devastating representation of what today’s rural hospitals faced with respect to Ransomware challenges. You know, 16 percent of Americans, who are 46 million people, are treated in rural hospitals. However, these rural hospitals have limited funds and capacities are often the objective of Ransomware actors … average.
Remembering the Covid-19 pandemic, Nakasone said they established the cybersecurity collaboration center for radical associations. «This is what I learned at the speed of the Warp operation: we have a radical association. Let’s apply it to a problem that is almost insoluble. We decide how we start to have results. This is the same procedure that we must do with respect to ransomware.» Reading the report on rural hospitals, Nakasone said his first thought was that a center is needed that can provide threat information quickly.
Regarding the developments with AI technology, Nakasone said: «We are in the initial stages of how we begin to see these models for AI; it will not replace a doctor.» «We will go through being able to improve our discovery of drugs and our disease detection, and we will go through being able to understand how we do this with the FDA, with an important understanding that there is a degree of training and education that must underpin everything we do.»
