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Bob Ackerman talks about how AI is shaping cybersecurity methods for attackers and defenders Michael Novinson (michael novinson) • May 9, 2024
Bob Ackerman, AllegisCyber Managing Director
Bob Ackerman, managing director of AllegisCyber, mentioned advances in synthetic intelligence have “redefined what’s vital in cybersecurity.” AI may help strengthen protection mechanisms and assist analysts distinguish related information from background noise, thereby growing productiveness. At the identical time, it has additionally enabled cyberattacks to change into quicker and extra subtle.
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Ackerman highlighted the challenges of phishing assaults, which have gotten extra personalised and troublesome to detect, and breaches, which attackers can navigate and considerably scale back dwell time with AI-powered methods.
“If you take a look at the character of cybersecurity, there’s assault and protection. Almost all improvements in cybersecurity come from the attackers, who’re very succesful from a technical standpoint, generally higher motivated, and constrained of their actions.” “No,” he mentioned. “I feel they are going to information us in defining new risk vectors that we are going to be coping with from a defensive perspective.”
In a video interview with Information Security Media Group at RSA Conference 2024, Ackerman additionally mentioned:
How AI permits extra personalised and harder-to-detect cyberattacks. How information integration may help extra precisely assess cyber threats. Why regulators and insurers demand extra detailed cyber information.
Mr. Ackerman has 20 years of profitable cybersecurity funding expertise and serves on the boards of quite a few cybersecurity firms. He was president and CEO of his UniSoft Systems and founder and chairman of InfoGear Technology Corp.

