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Bob Ackerman explains how AI is shaping offensive and defensive cybersecurity strategies
Advances in artificial intelligence have “redefined the challenges of cybersecurity,” said Bob Ackerman, chief executive officer of AllegisCyber. AI helps improve defense mechanisms, making it easier for analysts to differentiate relevant data from background noise, thereby increasing productivity. At the same time, it has enabled the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks.
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Ackerman highlighted the challenges of phishing attacks that have become more personalized and difficult to detect, as well as the loopholes where AI-based strategies allow attackers to navigate and significantly compress downtime.
“If you look at the nature of cybersecurity, there is an attack and a defense. Almost all innovations in cybersecurity come from the offensive side, very technically competent, sometimes better motivated and free in their behaviors “, did he declare. “I think they will guide us in defining the new threat vectors that we will face from a defensive point of view.”
In this video interview with Information Security Media Group at RSA Conference 2024Ackerman also discussed:
- How AI enables more personalized and harder-to-detect cyberattacks;
- How data integration can help assess cyber threats more accurately;
- Why regulators and insurers are demanding more detailed cyber data.
Ackerman has 20 years of experience successfully investing in cybersecurity and serves on the boards of numerous cybersecurity companies. He was chairman and CEO of UniSoft Systems and founder and president of InfoGear Technology Corp.
