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Artificial intelligence (AI) describes computer systems that perform tasks such as recognizing patterns, making predictions, understanding language, or generating content. In security reporting, the term commonly includes machine-learning models used for detection and analysis, as well as generative AI applications that produce text, code, images, or other outputs.
AI can help analyze security telemetry, prioritize vulnerabilities, and support investigations, but its outputs can be wrong or manipulated. Important attack surfaces include prompt injection that steers an application into unintended actions, sensitive data being exposed through prompts or model outputs, and excessive permissions granted to AI systems that use external tools. Models can also be degraded by poisoned training data or evaded with carefully crafted inputs. Practitioners should protect training and operational data, limit model access and tool permissions, test for adversarial behavior, and require appropriate human validation before high-impact decisions.
Guardrails need to be set in place to ensure confidentiality of sensitive information, while still leveraging AI as a force multiplier for productivity.
Not yet — but it can help make incremental progress in reducing vulnerability backlogs.
JumpCloud, a provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions, has swiftly reacted to an ongoing cybersecurity incident that impacted some of its clients
Vulnerable Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI mode should be disabled, Cisco advises.
To assist customers in the process, JumpCloud provided a guide for resetting affected API keys
JumpCloud, a US-based enterprise software firm is notifying several customers of an "ongoing incident." As a caution, the company has invalidated existing admin API keys to protect its customer organizations. Headquartered in Colorado, the cloud-based directory-as-a-service platform serves over 180,000 organizations across the world. [...]
The startup, one of four finalists in Black Hat USA's 2023 startup competition, uses deterministic AI to optimize cloud security.
Now is the time to build safeguards into nascent AI technology.
In a survey, over half of UK citizens expressed privacy and security concerns over AI being used to analyze patient data
Since its initial release in late 2022, the AI-powered text generation tool known as ChatGPT has been experiencing rapid adoption rates from both organizations and individual users. However, its latest feature, known as Shared Links, comes with the potential risk of unintentional disclosure of confidential information.
Around 61,000 addresses, accounting for 3% of total applications, were impacted during that period