Zscaler Champions AI-Powered Threat Detection In The Context Of Fighting Fire With Fire
siliconANGLE, May 1,2025
AI-powered threat detection is becoming essential as cyberattacks grow more sophisticated through advancements such as generative artificial intelligence.
Fighting AI-driven threats with AI is critical because only intelligent, automated defenses can match the speed and complexity of today's attacks, according to Deepen Desai (pictured), chief security officer and executive vice president of cyber and AI engineering at Zscaler Inc.
'To fight AI-driven attacks, you need to leverage AI,' Desai said. 'We're a big proponent of zero-trust architecture . but when you start thinking about AI application, the overall threat model changes slightly because you need to now worry about two things. One is all the data that is going to be leveraged to train those models. The other . is where they're going after your models, the outcomes - so, poisoning those applications to result in outcomes that may favor one thing over the other. It's better called poisoning attacks.'