Cybersecurity actions such as red teaming, threat detection transform with AI [Video]

The fanfare around artificial intelligence may be dying down but according to security experts, its impact on defense strategy, red teaming and other aspects of cybersecurity could be long lasting.

Large language models have the potential to reduce threat analysis by as much as 80 percent, estimates Vicente Diaz (pictured), threat intelligence strategist at VirusTotal, a crowdsourced threat intelligence platform acquired by Google LLC.

“All the hype around AI, but the thing is that actually it works for different stuff,” Diaz said. “We are making advances. It’s not like we’ve solved security yet, of course, but we are making everyone’s life easier. In this case, what we are analyzing is how LLMs can help us to analyze malware binaries, reverse engineering, which basically means spending a lot of time, needing a lot of expertise to make sense of what the malware is doing. And, well, if an LLM can do it for us, that’s a nice step forward.”

Diaz spoke with …