Artificial intelligence-based tools are among the most promising advancing technologies for the healthcare sector organizations to help address cybersecurity resource shortages, said Chris Tyberg, CISO of medical device and consumer health product manufacturer Abbott.
“I think one of the biggest opportunities going forward is how do we protect with those emerging [AI] technologies, specifically generative AI?” he said.
“There are great opportunities for us to leverage those technologies to speed up our response and help us scale up our response better,” said Tyberg, who is also chair of the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group.
The use of AI can potentially help alleviate cybersecurity workforce shortfalls, especially among smaller and rural healthcare providers, Tyberg said in an interview with Information Security Media Group during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“I think we will have to lean on some of these technologies, like gen AI, to help us scale and respond to threats more efficiently.”
In this audio interview with Information Security Media Group, Tyberg also discussed:
- Growing concerns about gen AI being in the hands of cybercriminals;
- Important components of HSCC’s strategic five-year plan to bolster the healthcare sector’s cybersecurity condition from critical to stable;
- Other top cybersecurity issues facing the healthcare sector.
Tyberg is responsible for establishing and managing the enterprise vision, strategy and program to ensure Abbott’s information assets, technologies and products are adequately protected. He has more than 20 years of experience in information security and risk management. Tyberg joined Abbott through the acquisition of St. Jude Medical, where he served as the CISO, responsible for both enterprise and product security functions. He began his career as part of the information security and risk practice at Ernst & Young.