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SiliconANGLE: Cutting both ways: AI sharpens systems protection while opening new exploits for malicious actors
The cybersecurity industry is discovering that powerful frontier AI models are a double-edged sword. Companies can use models to identify vulnerabilities in source code and system configurations faster than ever before. As it turns out, malicious actors can do this as well. A prime example of how AI models have shifted cybersecurity into a new […] The post Cutting both ways: AI sharpens systems protection while opening new exploits for malicious actors appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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AI models are now being used both by cybersecurity researchers to find vulnerabilities in software and by malicious actors to exploit those same weaknesses. Recent incidents with a widely-used programming language demonstrated that attackers can discover and weaponize vulnerabilities faster than organizations can patch them. Organizations are responding by emphasizing data protection, recovery capabilities, and resilience as foundational layers of enterprise security, since AI systems depend entirely on the integrity of the data supporting them. Additionally, enterprises face an emerging threat from quantum computing, which could break current encryption methods, yet most organizations have not yet deployed quantum-safe cryptography.
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