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What should security leaders do with AI? They don’t know

About the episode
Cybersecurity leaders are flush with cash—earmarked for AI, mind you—and eager to spend it. What they don’t have is a plan for how.

This week on Security Intelligence, Claire Nuñez, Curtis Pitts and Dave Bales join host Matt Kosinski to talk about:

  1. Why so many security teams are experience AI decision fatigue—and what to do about it.
  2. Then, we discuss Tenet Security’s DEFCON presentation on ghostjacking, a new method for sneaking malicious prompts into some of our most trusted data sources (logs, alerts, error reports). Because regular prompt injections are just too vanilla.
  3. Oh, and speaking of how to deploy AI in cybersecurity: Research from 1Password shows LLMs are a lot better at exploiting vulnerabilities than patching them. What does that mean for defenders? 

Find out all this, and more, on Security Intelligence.

Segments:

  • 00:00 — Introduction
  • 1:04 — Cybersecurity’s AI paralysis
  • 10:45 — Ghostjacking
  • 20:53 — Is AI bad at patching?

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

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Host and speakers of the episode:

Ryan Anschutz - North America Leader of X-Force Incident Response
Claire Nunez
Creative Director, IBM X-Force Cyber Range
Jeff Crume - Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Curtis Pitts
Lead CISO Trust
Ryan Anschutz - North America Leader of X-Force Incident Response
Dave Bales
North American Lead Managing Consultant, X-Force Cyber Range
Matthew Kosinski - Host
Matt Kosinski
Host

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