7 things you missed from Lindy Cameron's Chatham House speech on cyber challenges posed by AI
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Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. LLMs.
These technologies will shape our future. We're determined the UK sees the benefits. But our adversaries seek to exploit AI for their own ends. Here's 7 things you missed from NCSC CEO Lindy Cameron's keynote at #CHCyber.
1. 🗺️ OPPORTUNITY
"We are determined that the UK makes the most of new technology as it develops – from discovering superbug-killing antibiotics to dramatically improving people efficiency at work."
2. 🔒 MAKING THE UK SAFER
"AI has the potential to improve cyber security by dramatically increasing timeliness and accuracy of threat detection and response.
"Meanwhile, our adversaries will be seeking to exploit this new technology to advance their existing tradecraft."
3. 🦹 FLAWED ECOSYSTEM
"Much of the digital architecture we rely on today was never designed with security at its heart. It was built on foundations that are flawed and vulnerable. Unless we act now, we risk building a flawed ecosystem for AI."
4. ⚠️ DISRUPTION
"The hostile state actors and cyber criminals that NCSC deals with day-to-day are proof that we cannot simply trust that technology will be safe.
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"And in some cases they are taking advantage of vulnerabilities that have existed since the start of the internet."
5. 🧱 PROACTIVE START
"We shouldn't be retrofitting security into the technology nor expect individual users to solely carry the burden of risk. We have to build in security as a core requirement as we develop technology."
6. UK AS A GLOBAL LEADER
"The UK is well placed to safely take advantage of developments in AI. Our AI sector generates £3.7bn and employs 50,000 people."
7. 📋 SECURE BY DESIGN
"AI developers must predict possible attacks and identify ways to mitigate them. Failure to do so will risk designing vulnerabilities into future AI systems."
Read Lindy's speech in full 👇
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1yFantastic way to set the scene for the day of discussion. A privilege to welcome you, as always!
Insightful article, thanks for sharing!
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1yGenerative AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we detect and respond to cyber threats; it can be used to create synthetic data that can be used to train machine learning models to detect malicious activity. It can be used to protect our critical infrastructure and our economy and disrupt it significantly and very quickly. Innovate UK smart grants and other funding needs to seriously consider this threat and support anyone trying to solve it. Significant AI advancements are happening every day; the bad guys have the jump on businesses I feel at the moment, as they can be agile the cyber industry needs to level the playing field.