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How to calculate your AI-powered cybersecurity’s ROI

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Imagine this scenario: A sophisticated, malicious phishing campaign targets a large financial institution. The attackers use emails generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that closely mimic the company’s internal communications. The emails contain malicious links designed to steal employee credentials, which the attackers could use to gain access to company assets and data for unknown purposes. […]

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How to calculate your AI-powered cybersecurity’s ROI

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Imagine this scenario: A sophisticated, malicious phishing campaign targets a large financial institution. The attackers use emails generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that closely mimic the company’s internal communications. The emails contain malicious links designed to steal employee credentials, which the attackers could use to gain access to company assets and data for unknown purposes. […]

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ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study: Shortage of AI skilled workers

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AI has made an impact everywhere else across the tech world, so it should surprise no one that the 2024 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study saw artificial intelligence (AI) jump into the top five list of security skills. It’s not just the need for workers with security-related AI skills. The Workforce Study also takes a deep […]

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Preparing for the future of data privacy

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The focus on data privacy started to quickly shift beyond compliance in recent years and is expected to move even faster in the near future. Not surprisingly, the Thomson Reuters Risk & Compliance Survey Report found that 82% of respondents cited data and cybersecurity concerns as their organization’s greatest risk. However, the majority of organizations […]

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Testing the limits of generative AI: How red teaming exposes vulnerabilities in AI models

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With generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) on the frontlines of information security, red teams play an essential role in identifying vulnerabilities that others can overlook. With the average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of $4.88 million in 2024, businesses need to know exactly where their vulnerabilities lie. Given the remarkable pace […]

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3 proven use cases for AI in preventative cybersecurity

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IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 highlights a ground-breaking finding: The application of AI-powered automation in prevention has saved organizations an average of $2.2 million. Enterprises have been using AI for years in detection, investigation and response. However, as attack surfaces expand, security leaders must adopt a more proactive stance. Here are three […]

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AI hallucinations can pose a risk to your cybersecurity

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In early 2023, Google’s Bard made headlines for a pretty big mistake, which we now call an AI hallucination. During a demo, the chatbot was asked, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?” Bard answered that JWST, which launched in December 2021, took the “very first pictures” […]

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Navigating the ethics of AI in cybersecurity

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Even if we’re not always consciously aware of it, artificial intelligence is now all around us. We’re already used to personalized recommendation systems in e-commerce, customer service chatbots powered by conversational AI and a whole lot more. In the realm of information security, we’ve already been relying on AI-powered spam filters for years to protect […]

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ChatGPT 4 can exploit 87% of one-day vulnerabilities

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Since the widespread and growing use of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) in recent years, cybersecurity has been a top concern. Among the many questions, cybersecurity professionals wondered how effective these tools were in launching an attack. Cybersecurity researchers Richard Fang, Rohan Bindu, Akul Gupta and Daniel Kang recently performed a study to […]

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Open source, open risks: The growing dangers of unregulated generative AI

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While mainstream generative AI models have built-in safety barriers, open-source alternatives have no such restrictions. Here’s what that means for cyber crime. There’s little doubt that open-source is the future of software. According to the 2024 State of Open Source Report, over two-thirds of businesses increased their use of open-source software in the last year. […]

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