ChatGPT took the world by storm being released less than two months ago, it has become prominent and is used everywhere, for a wide variety of tasks – from automation tasks to the recomposition of 18th century classical music. Its impressive features offer fast and intuitive code examples, which are incredibly beneficial for anyone in the software business. However, we find that its ability to write sophisticated malware that holds no malicious code is also quite advanced, and in this post, we will walk through how one might harness ChatGPT power for better or for worse. ChatGPT could easily be used to create polymorphic malware. This malware's advanced capabilities can easily evade security products and make mitigation cumbersome with very little effort or investment by the adversary.

IBM has been warning about the cybersecurity skills gap for several years now and has recently released a report on the lack of artificial intelligence (AI) skills across Europe. The company said in a Friday email to SC Media that cybersecurity has been experiencing a significant workforce and skills shortage globally, and AI can offer a crucial technology path for helping solve it. "Given that AI skillsets are not yet widespread, embedding AI into existing toolsets that security teams are already using in their daily processes will be key to overcoming this barrier," IBM stated in the email. "AI has great potential to solve some of the biggest challenges facing security teams -- from analyzing the massive amounts of security data that exists to helping resource-strapped security teams prioritize threats that pose the greatest risk, or even recommending and automating parts of the response process." Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra, said the potential of machine learning (ML) and AI materially helping in the pursuit of a large set of problems across many industries has created an acute imbalance in the supply and demand of AI talent.

Amazon's naked ambition to become part of everyone's daily lives was on full display this week at its annual hardware event. It announced a slew of new Alexa-powered devices, including a home surveillance drone, a suite of Ring-branded car alarm systems, and miscellany like an adorable little kids' Echo device. But it's clear Amazon's strategy has shifted, even if only for a product cycle, from going wide to going deep. Last year, Amazon baked its virtual assistant into any household device that could accommodate a chip. Its list of new widgets with Alexa seemed a mile long and included a menagerie of home goods, like lamps and microwaves.

As cyber attacks get more diverse in nature and targets, it's essential that cyber security staff have the right visibility to determine how to solve vulnerabilities accordingly, and AI can help to come up with problems that its human colleagues can't alone. "Cyber security resembles a game of chess," said Greg Day, chief security officer EMEA at Palo Alto Networks. "The adversary looks to outmanoeuvre the victim, the victim aims to stop and block the adversary's attack. Data is the king and the ultimate prize. "In 1996, an AI chess system, Deep Blue, won its first game against world champion, Garry Kasparov.

Is AI the Silver Bullet of Cybersecurity? Two years ago, I talked about how we were in the early stages of the artificial intelligence revolution and how to evaluate AI in security products. Since then, AI research continues to blow minds, particularly with Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), which are being used to clone voices, generate big chunks of coherent text, and even create creepy pictures of faces of people who don't exist. With all these cool developments making headlines, it's no wonder that people want to understand how AI works and how it can be applied to different industries like cyber security. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a silver bullet in security, and you should run away from anyone who says they're selling one. Security will always be an arms race between attackers and defenders.

If you're going to the play the "AI" drinking game at RSA Conference 2019, you may not make it out alive. Ahead of the industry's largest trade show in San Francisco, vendors are already touting AI-based solutions meant to address one of the industry's most pressing issues: a scarcity of workers qualified to defend against cyberattacks. Over the past week, both Palo Alto Networks Inc. PANW, -0.30% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, 0.72% announced new AI-branded services to address an often-cited lack of cybersecurity workers qualified to keep on top of an exponentially growing number of cyberattacks. In a report released Thursday, however, Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, 0.50% said that the industry may actually be cooling to AI-powered cybersecurity.

If you're going to the play the "AI" drinking game at RSA Conference 2019, you may not make it out alive. Ahead of the industry's largest trade show in San Francisco, vendors are already touting AI-based solutions meant to address one of the industry's most pressing issues: a scarcity of workers qualified to defend against cyberattacks. Over the past week, both Palo Alto Networks Inc. PANW, -0.08% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.29% announced new AI-branded services to address an often-cited lack of cybersecurity workers qualified to keep on top of an exponentially growing number of cyberattacks. In a report released Thursday, however, Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -0.90% said that the industry may actually be cooling to AI-powered cybersecurity.

If you're going to the play the "AI" drinking game at RSA Conference 2019, you may not make it out alive. Ahead of the industry's largest trade show in San Francisco, vendors are already touting AI-based solutions meant to address one of the industry's most pressing issues: a scarcity of workers qualified to defend against cyberattacks. Over the past week, both Palo Alto Networks Inc. PANW, -0.32% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, 0.45% announced new AI-branded services to address an often-cited lack of cybersecurity workers qualified to keep on top of an exponentially growing number of cyberattacks. In a report released Thursday, however, Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -0.70% said that the industry may actually be cooling to AI-powered cybersecurity.

Darktrace helped pave the way for using artificial intelligence to combat malicious hacking and enterprise security breaches. Now a new U.K. startup founded by an ex-Darktrace executive has raised some funding to take the use of AI in cybersecurity to the next level. Senseon, which has pioneered a new model that it calls "AI triangulation" -- simultaneously applying artificial intelligence algorithms to oversee, monitor and defend an organization's network appliances, endpoints and "investigator bots" covering multiple microservices -- has raised $6.4 million in seed funding. David Atkinson -- the startup's CEO and founder who had previously been the commercial director for Darktrace and before that helped pioneer new cybersecurity techniques as an operative at the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense -- said that Senseon will use the funding to continue to expand its business both in Europe and the U.S. The deal was co-led by MMC Ventures and Mark Weatherford, who is chief cybersecurity strategist at vArmour (which itself raised money in recent weeks) and previously Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Others in the round included Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane Venture Partners and CyLon, a security startup incubator in London.

Darktrace helped pave the way for using artificial intelligence to combat malicious hacking and enterprise security breaches. Now a new UK startup founded by an ex-Darktrace executive has raised some funding to take the use of AI in cybersecurity to the next level. Senseon, which has pioneered a new model that it calls "AI triangulation" -- simultaneously applying artificial intelligence algorithms to oversee, monitor and defend an organization's network appliances, endpoints, and'investigator bots' covering multiple microservices -- has raised $6.4 million in seed funding. David Atkinson -- the startup's CEO and founder who had previously been the commercial director for Darktrace and before that helped pioneer new cybersecurity techniques as an operative at the UK's Ministry of Defense -- said that Senseon will use the funding to continue to expand its business both in Europe and the US. The deal was co-led by MMC Ventures and Mark Weatherford, who is chief cyber security strategist at vArmour (which itself raised money in recent weeks) and previously Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.