Episode 134: How GenAI Lowers Bar for Cyber Threat Actors

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In episode 134 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson is joined by Randy Rose, VP of Security Operations & Intelligence at the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®); and Timothy Davis, Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Analyst at CIS. Together, they discuss how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) lowers the barrier of entry for cyber threat actors (CTAs). Here are some highlights from our episode:

01:37. CTAs' use of GenAI to improve their existing campaigns
03:38. The need for CTI teams to look beyond language in analyzing GenAI-enabled threats
07:22. The evolving impact of GenAI on phishing campaigns, malware development, deepfakes, and malicious Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) offerings
12:28. How GenAI increases the the speed at which CTAs can scale their efforts
17:29. Technical barriers and other limitations that shape CTAs' use of GenAI
22:46. A historical perspective of AI-enabled cybersecurity and how GenAI can support cybersecurity awareness training
26:50. The cybersecurity benefits of AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities for clustering data
29:05. What the future might hold for GenAI from an offensive and defensive perspective

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