David Hughes

So the threat landscape today is getting every year intensified, both in terms of scale and speed and the kind of industrialization.

And it changes quickly, right?

Absolutely.

And particularly with the injection of AI and agentic AI, generative AI, change is continuing to accelerate.

Well, yeah, there's lots of different ways that attackers can use AI.

But when you think about agentic AI, it allows them to be able to automate a move more quickly without having to write automation code.

They can be driving these systems with plain English language and be able to operate at scale around the clock.

you're able to run 24 by seven.

And if you want to cover more ground, you just start more agents.

Yeah.

Well, there's all kinds of threats, but obviously there's different kinds of things people are after.

They can be after credentials, so trying to steal people's credentials, which is a base for doing something else in future.

There's being able to take control, install remote access Trojans so that they can control someone's laptop or computer.

There's ransomware where your data is encrypted and then you need to pay to get keys to decrypt that data.

There's a whole variety of common schemes.

Yeah, genetic AI helps collect and correlate information automatically.

And then generative AI lets people deepfake audio, deepfake videos, things that they can use in social engineering, which might make it easier for them to do spear phishing type thing or a multi-stage thing where they impersonating someone's boss very effectively and able to get the information they need that way.

I think that all these things are improving at a dramatic rate.

When you look at agentic AI and what it can do on the plus side, it absolutely is revolutionizing the way we think about coding.

And so all of these things that can be used by adversaries, you can use yourself as well on the positive side in terms of being able to implement defenses faster and more effectively.