The former cybersecurity field CTO for Microsoft and former global executive security advisor for IBM Security will kick off the second day of the conference on January 14, 2025, with a keynote presentation that addresses AI and cybersecurity in modern health care.
Diana Kelley, who currently serves as the chief information security officer (CISO) for Protect AI, will be the opening keynote on the second day of the AI in Health Care Summit with a keynote address entitled “Guarding the Digital Pulse: AI and Cybersecurity in Modern Healthcare.”
The in-person conference, which will be held January 13-14, 2025, at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, is designed for health care professionals to better understand the foundations of artificial intelligence and its potential.
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The one thing that Kelley hopes attendees will take away from her presentation is that they should not fear artificial intelligence (AI) and the need for cybersecurity.
Adoption of AI has been so rapid, it almost feels like a “bullet train,” Kelley says. But the conference and her address are an opportunity for health care professionals to learn and come together to learn about AI and how to secure systems.
“The first thing is, this is software, so it’s not mystical,” she told RISE. “This is math. I mean, it’s gnarly, intense math. We don’t have to do the math ourselves, but it’s math. It’s not magic. So that’s the first thing I want to convey is to help cybersecurity defenders understand this isn’t some magical thing. This is software that we can defend. We know how to defend software.”
The second point that attendees need to consider: Any new or updated technology has risks and will need policies and processes to monitor it.
“In this talk I’m going to do some baselining, a 101 of what’s the difference between AI machine learning and Generative AI. A lot of people get really hung up on that, so it's critical to educate people so they know about this new technology, what the risks are, how the risks have changed or shifted with the new technology and what processes we need,” she says.
And just like the need to have an acceptable use policy in place when the Internet and social media platforms were introduced, the same is true for AI, Kelley explains. Developers have embraced AI very rapidly, but if AI generates a set of code, they shouldn’t place it in the product without a review. There must be a human in the loop to check the output and make sure it’s going to work with new or existing technology.
Until recently, she says, scanning tools weren’t updated to look for supply chain software that runs machine learning in AI, which are foundational to creating AI.
Kelley also warns that research shows that 80 percent of AI analytic tools in all businesses today have some element of open source. Many of these models are being downloaded and used for research to create AI. But before you use those models, she says you must scan them prior to implementation to ensure there is nothing malicious in them.
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In addition to her keynote presentation, Kelley will speak at a panel on Monday, January 13, 2025 that addresses “Harnessing the Power of AI and Cybersecurity: Strengthening Defenses Through Synergy.”
The AI in Health Care Summit will take place January 13-14, 2025, with a preconference workshop on January 12, at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. Click here for the complete list of speakers, details for the preconference workshop, the agenda of the main conference, and how to register for the program.