For businesses today, they must holistically reevaluate how they look at GenAI, how it impacts people and process and how best to integrate it into their operations to prepare for known and unknown threats looming on the horizon.
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and specifically generative AI (GenAI) has been a double-edged sword for cybersecurity. On the one hand, these technologies can help businesses respond to cybersecurity threats in real time, while on the other, they are empowering attackers with more sophisticated and accelerated ways to conduct larger scale ransomware campaigns.
For years IT leaders have put cyber near the top of their priorities, investing in technology and tools to detect, halt and keep viruses and malware at bay. Employees have been constantly drilled with standard cybersecurity training on how to spot phishing emails and other threats. While AI is clearly bolstering security responses with higher automation and faster response, AI also threatens to roll back many of our past efforts. Threat actors today are tooled up to unleash a wave of new threats at unprecedented speed and levels of sophistication that bypass current cyber defences – although fortunately we’ve seemed limited impact so far.
