Cybersecurity Dive March 5, 2024
Attackers and defenders have access to the same capabilities in generative AI. Clear advantages for either side have yet to materialize.
Chris Betz is neither fearful nor overly optimistic about the role of generative AI in cybersecurity. Instead Betz, CISO at AWS, balances both ends of the spectrum — he treats it just as he does any other burgeoning technology.
“For what it’s worth, I’m not sure that the sky is falling,” Betz told Cybersecurity Dive.
The security industry has not yet seen evidence that substantiates broad concerns about threat actors using generative AI to initiate cyberattacks more quickly, more often or with more damaging outcomes.
While researchers expect AI to amplify the impact for defenders and attackers, threat actors’...