CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline

AI Inflection Point: How Cyber Defenders and Attackers Are Racing Ahead

• Bitdefender • Season 1 • Episode 7

🛡️Bitdefender presents CYBERCRIME: From the Frontline—the podcast that takes you inside real-life cyberattacks. In this episode, AI at an inflection point: How cyber defenders and attackers are racing ahead, with no finish line in sight. Instead, AI, particularly generative models, supercharge both cyber offense and defense in various ways. AI and LLMs offer revolutionary potential for security technologies and things like attack surface personalization but they also increase the potential sophistication and volume of attacks. Those in cybersecurity are adapting—trying to safely harness AI while countering its misuse. Listen now for a discussion on the state of AI in the industry, and where we might go from here.

🔊 Key AI topics covered in this episode:
↪ AI’s history in cybersecurity: did we embrace it too soon?
↪Examples of how AI is continuing to revolutionize cyber defense technologies
↪Concerns about rapid weaponization and gaps in governance
↪The reasons the cybersecurity industry must be careful about AI implementation
↪Potential privacy risks related to powerful AI tools
↪The need to watch for dangerous and incorrect prompt outcomes

🎙️ Join Bitdefender Director of IoT Security Dan Berte as he hosts Bitdefender VP of Threat Research Dragos Gavrilut, Bitdefender Senior Manager of Detection & Response, Cristina Vatamanu, and Bitdefender Machine Learning Manager, Security Analytics, Alexandru Cîtea.

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