AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready

AI is lowering the skill and time required for cyberattacks, allowing a single actor to automate reconnaissance, phishing, and exploitation at scale, which disproportionately raises risk for hospitals, banks, nonprofits, municipalities, and other resource-constrained organizations. For CIOs, the strategic implication is that cybersecurity must be built for AI-accelerated adversaries: assume faster, more frequent attacks, strengthen core controls and detection/response, and don’t rely on premium AI defense tools that may be out of reach for many IT budgets.