At Black Hat, A Central Question Persists: Is AI Friend Or Foe?
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
The cybersecurity industry's obsession with generative AI continued for a second year in a row at Black Hat 2024, where security experts are trying to figure out if the revolutionary technology is friend or foe.
'The opinion is split down the middle,' said Audra Streetman, a security strategist at Cisco Systems Inc.'s Splunk division, citing a recent survey of 1,600 security executives who believe AI is the solution, as well as probable cause, for potential breaches.
'It is a double-edged sword,' added Brett Stone-Gross, senior director of threat intelligence at Zscaler Inc. 'There is a lot of hype, and we need to separate the hype from reality. Some look to LLM as a solution, which is good at some things but can also have bad answers.'