Security Tools: First, They're Good, Then They're Bad
Security Boulevard, Monday, April 21st, 2025
Having explored the dual life of AI and its growing prowess in social engineering in a previous post, I was intrigued by a blog penned by Lawrence Pingree that more broadly discusses the duality of cybersecurity tools.
In 'When Good Tools Go Bad: Dual-Use in Cybersecurity,' Pingree, a vice president at Dispersive, writes that it is imperative that cyber-defenders understand how the tools intended to protect digital goings-on can be pressed into action by malicious actors to execute cyberattacks. 'In the right hands, it defends; in the wrong hands, it attacks,' he says, explaining that some security tools are particularly vulnerable to living a double life because they are inherently versatile.