Oracles Mark Hurd Touts Automation for Security & Patching Concerns

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd came to New York City to tout the benefits of automation and artificial intelligence to help tackle concerns of security and patching.

NEW YORK CITY – When Oracle CEO Mark Hurd speaks, its usually about big-issue, macro ideas in technology. This usually focuses on where IT budgets are headed over the next five years, the changing nature of the cloud or even how GDP will affect CEO decisions.
However, at an event on Monday, Hurd wandered into a different topic: security.
Specifically, Hurd was on hand at CloudWorld NY, to offer details about the Oracles Autonomous Cloud Platform, which is part of an effort to add machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation to all nearly all the companys software and application products. (See
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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd in New York City

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However, Hurd spent a good portion of his time during Mondays keynote to talk up the benefits of AI and automation when it comes to maintaining systems and patching large-scale applications, such as databases. As part of his predictions, Hurd noted that 90% of all enterprise apps will have AI capabilities by 2020. (See
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He also noted that between 2020 and 2025, more than 50% of all enterprise data will be managed autonomously and be more secure because of it. The reason to invest more in automation, machine learning and AI from a security point of view, is that businesses at the executive level do not understand the threats that are out there.
The reality today is that as big of a deal as security is, nobody takes it seriously, Hurd said. There will be a day, and I dont want to predict it, when something happens -- something material.
For example, Hurd noted that a bank executive recently told him it takes about four months to move an Oracle security patch throughout the businesss various IT systems and networks. That is pretty good considering, on average, an Oracle security patch could take between six months and year to complete.
One way to mitigate some of these problems, Hurd noted, is the cloud, where the hosting company handles much of the patching and security upgrades.
It takes our customers months to get a patch through their business. Why? Because its hard, Hurd said. Why is that? Because they sit on different hardware, different operating systems and there are different versions and I could go on... in the cloud, its patched immediately. In the cloud, its more secure and the data is encrypted... theres more innovation, it costs less, its more secure.
To help hammer that message home, Hurd invited Mark Frissora, the CEO and president of Caesars Entertainment, to talk about the security concerns an enterprise of that size has, with millions of dollars trading hands and customer data that would be valuable to cybercriminals.
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The trouble with security, Frissors explained, is that many executives on his level dont understand it, and that tech vendors need to do a better job of explaining it and how the technology works to prevent a data breach or cyberattack.
CEOs are undereducated when it comes to cybersecurity, Frissora said. They are undereducated about security in general. You get a lot of presentations from technology folks and they dummy it down for someone like me, but you cant talk in tech speak. From my perspective, I never had anyone call on me and explain to me why their systems are better at security than anyone elses … boards are panic-stricken by it [hacking] but they dont know what they are talking about.
And this is where Hurd brought the issue back to Oracle, and having the company handle the patching and security not only from the cloud, but by automating more and more of the security process and updates.
In these companies, there are hundreds of versions of these systems on hundreds of different computers, Hurd said. In our cloud, theres only one. Theres one version, theres one operating system, so our job is infinitely easier and then we are able to encrypt all the data.
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