Diversity in Cybersecurity: How AI and Inclusion Strengthen Defense

As malicious actors continue to take advantage of online exploits, leveraging diversity in cybersecurity is essential to defend against their attacks.

The cybersecurity industry must therefore broaden its scope to include people from diverse backgrounds, not just traditional software developers. In doing so, the industry can tap into a broader talent pool, bringing in passionate and curious people with skills that can be taught and scalable.according to Mr. K. Palmore (pictured), Director of the CISO Office at Google Cloud.

Google Cloud’s MK Palmore speaks at CUBE about the importance of diversity in cybersecurity.

“We’ve been grappling with this cybersecurity workforce challenge for almost a decade,” Palmore said. “The position of organizations like Cyversity “The reality is that we all, as an industry, need to open our lens and our lens to include people from diverse backgrounds who may not be typical software developers or software engineers, but who all have an interest, an inclination to dive into it, an ability to study and learn the material.”

Palm grove spoke to CUBE Research Savannah Peterson And John Fourier to the Black Hat USA Eventduring an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio. They discussed why diversity in cybersecurity should be a priority in the corporate world.

Reshaping Diversity in Cybersecurity Through Artificial Intelligence

As AI continues to take modern society by storm, it is emerging as a stepping stone to diversity in cybersecurity. For example, AI is augmenting the capabilities of cybersecurity practitioners in a way that puts them on the right track. proactive advantage because they are able to match and surpass opposing activity, according to Palmore.

“I think we’re seeing for the first time, from a defender perspective, that cybersecurity defenders are much more proactive with the use of AI tools than they have been in the past,” he said. “AI has this opportunity to transform the landscape into an environment where defenders have, for the first time ever, the ability to leverage cybersecurity in a way that makes it substantive and responsive to the needs of the organization.”

Because cybersecurity is a skills-based industry, pedigree isn’t necessary. Indeed, qualities required include curiosity and problem-solving, and leading threat intelligence players like Google Cloud are particularly helpful, Palmore said.

“Curious… it’s this idea that you want to dig until you find out what the problem was and then you want to fix it,” he noted. “You want to put controls in place, you want to make changes to the business process of the organization so that the problem doesn’t happen again. People who are extremely curious, people who want to understand how things work and where the problems come from, like their source, tend to be good cybersecurity practitioners.”

Here’s the full video interview, part of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Black Hat USA Event:

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