CS Talks: the role of AI
Why artificial intelligence is both a blessing and a curse for cyber security
Cyber Security Hub explores how AI is used to both attack and defend networks and its growing prominence in the cyber security space
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are on a seemingly never-ending wave of popularity. As these technologies become more integrated into daily life, with the advent of ‘smart’ devices ranging from lightbulbs to speakers to cars as part of the predicted 75.4 billion Internet of Things connected devices installed worldwide by 2025, cyber security professionals must consider their impact on the threat landscape itself.
Likewise, AI-powered software like OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT is on the rise. GPT-3 amassed 590 million visits from 100 million unique users in January 2023 alone. Unfortunately, as with other AI and ML applications, it too has the potential to cause harm. While many users have turned to the chatbot to generate ideas, others have been using it for more nefarious purposes. When surveyed by Blackberry Security, 73 percent of cyber security professionals said they were either ‘very’ or ‘fairly’ concerned about ChatGPT’s potential as a cyber security threat.
While AI and machine learning can massively benefit both companies and people, these benefits can also be harnessed by malicious actors. Cyber security professionals must therefore utilize these applications to prevent threats before they can be launched.
Register for CS Talks: the role of AI to learn more about how cyber security professionals are both using and protecting their networks from this technological juggernaut.
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Lianne Potter
Head of SecOps
Leading UK Retailer
As the Head of SecOps for the largest greenfield technology transformation project in Europe, Lianne is building a leading edge security team from scratch to meet the needs of a modern retail organisation while empowering her team to think innovatively to create new standards in best practices. Lianne has delivered talks across the globe to share her vision for a new type of security function. Drawing upon her expertise as a cyber-anthropologist (through her consultancy, The Anthrosecurist), her practical experience as a security-focused software developer and as a security practitioner; Lianne combines the human and the technical aspects of security to evangelise a cultural security transformation. She is on the advisory board for two community enterprises aimed at encouraging diversity in tech, is a published author, podcast regular, and recently won Computing.com’s Security Specialist of the Year for her work on human-centric approaches to security. In 2021 she won two other awards for Security Leaders of the Year 2021 and Woman of the Year in the Enterprise category.
