AI offers tremendous advantages to enhance cybersecurity—and equally troublesome risks.
The question isn’t when is AI coming to a computer near you, AI is here now. It may not be fully implemented across many of the world’s enterprise data centers yet but it will be soon. How your enterprise deals with AI now will shape your and your users’ data for decades to come.
The stakes have never been higher.
“Generative AI apps ChatGPT and DALL-E, released by OpenAI [late 2022] are the most disruptive technology developments since the world wide web,” comments Paul Brucciani, cyber security advisor at WithSecure, a Finland-based cybersecurity provider and consultant. And, AI is just getting started.
“The threat posed by AI to cybersecurity is real, but there is certainly a ‘hype’ element in how big a share of highly sophisticated new AI attacks and data breaches are going to pose,” says Andrew Shikiar, executive director at FIDO Alliance, an open industry association with a focused mission: reduce the world’s reliance on passwords.
Lawmakers at state and federal levels are scrambling to pass legislative guardrails reining in AI with an urgency rarely seen among such normally deliberative bodies. Many have already legislated to prevent patents and copyrights from being issued to individuals or companies if the source of the creation was a machine, not a human.
The cyber threats run the gamut
Phishing, deepfake photos, videos, and voice recordings have already made front page news, some nefarious in nature, some innocent (See Britain’s Princess Kate’s recent failed attempt at editing a family photo.)
