Cybersecurity in the age of AI is a whole different story

Everyone is worried about Cybersecurity in the age of artificial intelligencewhere new threats are constantly emerging, but some believe that 100% protection is a myth.

“We live in a climate right now where everyone wants everything fixed. And I always believe that any company, Red Hat or any other, has a limited amount of resources,” said Vincent Danen (pictured), vice president of product security at Red Hat Inc.If we got rid of the things that maybe don’t matter that much or only dealt with them when they start to matter, when they’re being exploited, all those resources could be saved to focus on some of those proactive things.

Danen spoke to CUBE Research Rebecca Knight And Rob Strechay has Red Hat Summitduring an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio. They discussed the evolving cybersecurity landscape and Red Hat’s future strategies. (*Disclosure below.)

Red Hat’s Vincent Danen talks to theCUBE about the struggle for resources when combating cybersecurity attacks.

AI at the service of cybersecurity experts

The proliferation of AI technologies means that security needs to be thought of differently, according to Danen, because protecting a model is a more complex task than protecting traditional software.

“It’s not about comparing apples to apples. We have to look at them separately. And even the way we classify, for example, the severity of a safety issue in a model is not going to be the same as the severity of a product,” he said.

Despite the call to provide comprehensive security from the start, Danen argues that since companies have limited resources, consumers must accept an “acceptable risk,” which he compares to crossing the street or boarding an airplane.

“You have to use multiple technologies and multiple means to address a threat. I think the balance we have to strike is: We can spend a lot of money on all these technologies, but we have to figure out which ones work best for us,” he said.

Danen says burnout is a major problem in the cybersecurity industry. He believes AI could help alleviate this problem by reducing the workload on engineers and security experts.

“We’re literally firefighters going from one fire to another,” he said. “If I can reduce that work … I’m giving my employees the opportunity to look for more proactive solutions. We want to create technology that our customers trust and that’s useful to the industry as a whole and that helps people on this planet.”

Here’s the full video interview, part of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Red Hat Summit:

(*Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over the content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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