Cisco Systems Inc. CEO Chuck Robbins recently fell victim to a suspicious connection that almost fooled his sharp eyes.
As CEO of one of the largest providers of security products, Robbins said the evolution of malicious links underscores the role of artificial intelligence in making cyberattacks harder to detect.
On Monday, Cisco unveiled the AI-powered component of its year-old cloud security initiative. The service aims to protect against potential advanced security breaches in fake AI-powered video, audio and text offers as more and more people work from home. Company executives warn that ChatGPT OpenAI will make it particularly difficult to detect phishing attempts.
"Security is a game of minimizing risk, not minimizing risk," Robbins said Monday afternoon during a roundtable discussion with reporters at the company's San Francisco offices. Reduces the time it takes to investigate attacks.
At the same time, Robbins said that Cisco is considering hiring a vice president to run its AI operations and temporarily revamp Microsoft Corp.
Cisco's product announcement comes from this week's RSA conference in San Francisco, where the promise and threat of artificial intelligence is a major topic.
Fear of misleading content, much of it driven by artificial intelligence, has businesses and individuals anticipating an explosion of AI-related cyberattacks over the next six months into next year.
Some have pointed to the firing of the editor-in-chief of German magazine Die Aktuelle, which published a fake Amnesty International interview with former Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher, who has not been seen in public since Robbins' injury. brain. Skiing accident in December 2013.
"Imagine a classic Nigerian scam targeting people that isn't based on a single inappropriate chain letter," said Steve Wilson, director of products at Contrast Security. "ChatGPT introduced advanced AI to all texting kids."
In fact, the latest industry fad, AI threats, mirrors another emerging game-changing technology: According to Raju Chikori, CEO of NeteRich, it's not just being embraced by businesses and consumers, but also by cybercriminals.
"What worries me the most is that we rush to the latest technology but don't understand the basics," JupiterOne CEO Erkang Zheng said in an interview. "It's like taking shortcuts when building a house."
This is where vendors like Cisco and others come into play. They saw an opportunity to quickly mine Internet traffic data to analyze data streams and identify patterns that could lead to security breaches. "Security is an information game," Jitu Patel, Cisco's head of security and collaboration, said in a briefing on Monday.