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Get An Untrusted Security Advisor! Have Fun, Reduce Fail!

Security Boulevard, Friday, October 18th, 2024

Many organizations are looking for trusted advisors, and this applies to our beloved domain of cyber/information security. If you look at LinkedIn, many consultants present themselves as trusted advisors to CISOs or their teams.

This perhaps implies that nobody wants to hire an untrusted advisor. But if you think about it, modern LLM-powered chatbots and other GenAI applications are essentially untrusted advisors (RAG and fine-tuning notwithstanding).

Let's think about the use cases where using an untrusted security advisor is quite effective and the risks are minimized.

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