Defending in the Era of AI

At this week’s North American Information Security Summit, I made the following points under the title “Defending in the Era of AI”:

1. GenAI has the potential to be a net positive for cyber defenders. While GenAI advances adversary capabilities, it can advance defender capabilities even more. <img src="/assets/images/GenAI-adversary_gain.png" alt="Adversary gain from use of AI" widt...

AI Defense at the Gartner 2024 Security and Risk Management Summit

At the 2024 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, my session focused on defending in the AI Era. Both adversaries and defenders benefit from the use of AI. Defensive use of AI introduces new attack vectors. Offensive use of AI can be defended using traditional methods:

<img src="/assets/images/GenAI-gain_comp.png" alt="AI gain quadrants" width="600" height="auto" style="displa...