This year’s Black Hat USA conference showcased the latest attack methods and news from vendors to help security teams better protect their organizations.
Here, I’ll highlight two important themes from the conference that are essential for risk management, including useful related security product updates.
1. The emergence of AI-related risk
With the recent popularity of artificial intelligence, organizations are aggressively exploring or adopting AI — including machine learning and generative AI (GenAI) — for a potential competitive advantage to their business. In fact, recent research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group showed GenAI initiatives are one of the top IT investments for 2024. Like cloud computing, this wave of new technology is coming at us fast and is being embraced broadly by organizations.
While GenAI and specifically the use of large language models (LLMs) can provide tremendous efficiencies for organizations — such as supercharging previously manual, mundane back-office tasks, increasing developer productivity and automating externally facing customer interactions — the technology comes with its own set of risks that need to be addressed…
