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Sep 24, 2023·healthsystemcio

Security experts discuss healthcare data breaches, highlighting the underappreciated risk posed by "low-risk" insider incidents. Key points include the growing threat landscape as organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, the evolving concept of access in the digital age, and the potential damage from attacks originating within an organization. They share best practices, such as enforcing solid policies, fostering strong governance, empowering CISOs, involving compliance, utilizing data-driven approaches, and cultivating relationships. Experts emphasize the need to manage Protected Health Information (PHI) effectively, leverage AI for auditing and incident prevention, and continually educate individuals about potential risks.

Sep 24, 2023·Tech Republic

Google Cloud Next 2023 disclosed AI-powered services including new Cloud TPU, A4 virtual machines with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Vertex AI increase capacity, supports more languages. Vertex AI Search, Vertex AI Conversation available. Codey foundation model upgrades for efficient code generation. Vertex's text-to-image model style tuning, Llama 2 and Claude 2 join Vertex AI's model library. BigQuery Studio, AlloyDB upgrades preview ready. A3 virtual machines running on NVIDIA H100 GPU with GPU-to-GPU data transfers for AI training disclosed. Cloud TPU v5e, optimized for generative AI inferencing, introduced. Google Kubernetes Engine Enterprise edition for AI workloads launches in September.

Sep 24, 2023·CIODive

IBM trains watsonx.ai to convert COBOL code to Java to modernize mainframes and ease analysis, refactoring and transformation of legacy code. Deployment is planned by end of year. COBOL, a 1950s programming language, is estimated to run more than 800 billion lines daily globally despite modernization efforts. The AI solution, trained on COBOL data, compares syntax and semantics in the COBOL-to-Java translation to the original script for accuracy and uses licensed open-source software to mitigate risk.