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Hospital cyber attacks cost $600K/hour. Here’s how AI is changing the math


How Alberta Health Services is using advanced AI to bolster its defenses as attackers increasingly target healthcare facilities.

In years past, medical facilities weren’t as vulnerable as they are now; hackers had an unwritten rule not to target institutions or services where a disruption could put people in physical danger. But that’s no longer the case: Ransomware-as-a-service has proliferated and stolen medical information has become highly monetizable, spurring threat actors to attack hospitals at unprecedented levels. Securonix’s platform constantly learns what normal looks like for its users, endpoints and systems, Henderson explained, which helps his team catch “the subtle stuff,” like a trusted account behaving “just a little bit off.”

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