Yoshi Terati, co-founder and CEO of A Security.
Yosi, nice to see you here today.
Let's talk all about AI and the ways it is changing cybersecurity.
You said weaponized AI is really changing the current landscape.
Why is this different from past shifts that we have seen in some of these underlying technologies?
Thank you.
Thank you so much for having me, JD.
And the risk of weaponized AI is something that is not just another incremental change in technology.
It's something that is fundamentally different.
Than how we address cybersecurity risk.
The reason is that nation state capabilities are now available to everyone with access to frontier models, and it means that they can run at speed, scale, and sophistication of the most advanced attackers.
And this is something that we are not ready for it from the perspective of what we built so far.
Up until today, we built all our defenses against a human adversary, and now we.
Facing advanced machine base, especially at the speed of machines, and this has put a lot of our enterprises' controls at risk.
We're not ready for it and as we see here right now at Blackhe, at one of the biggest conferences in cybersecurity, security leaders are concerned of the risk of weaponized AI, but still all our controls are ready for human adversaries.
So this is something that all enterprises need to be aware of it.
Yosi, why do you believe the industry needs to completely rethink the way that it defends actively against the threat posed from cyberattacks?
Because the pace that we build our defenses today are meant to address a tier of attackers that don't have nation state level attack capabilities.
They're using different tools.
They're using different capabilities at their hands today.
But once they will leverage the most advanced capabilities that AI can provide them, similar to MTos for example, this will put all of our enterprise controls at risk.
We have a vulnerability. that we need to pay and this will be captured by attackers.
It means that most of our enterprises' controls and software were not built to absolve attackers using AI.
So it means that we have a huge gap that we cannot do just faster than what we did so far.
We need to change the way that we address security.
We need to leverage AI to find vulnerabilities in a safe way and fix that before attackers are exploiting them.
Yoshi, what is one reality of the cybersecurity landscape that you think we are not talking enough about?
I think that right now a lot of security leaders are waiting for MTOs to be available for attackers.
They're preparing for that, but I think we don't need for these capabilities to be released for security teams.
We can immediately today use the current 14 models to prepare ourselves against MITOs capabilities at the hands of threat actors, and I think we already proved that with our tool at A Security that we can find enough vulnerabilities to cover and to be ready for me.
Threat right now and we don't need to wait.
I think it's currently a board level question.
Are we ready against MTO's capabilities?
Are we ready against weaponized AI?
And I think we don't need to wait for these capabilities to be released.
We, we can answer that today with the frontier models that exist today and be ready for that right now with what we're building.
I think I have about a minute left.
What should every CEO know about the rise of artificial intelligence-driven cyberattacks?
I think that the first thing that we should know is Frontier AI right now provide the most advanced capability that exists nation-state level to every attacker, so ransomware, impact of data leakage, impact of availability can now be impacted by any threat actors, and the only way for us to address that risk is if we are using the same capabilities to find.
Vulnerabilities in our environment.
CEOs should ask security leaders, how are we doing things differently now?
How are we doing the same thing just faster, and this is something that in the upcoming months we will see a surge in breaches in the impact of data leakage and the impact of availability.
And if it will not change the paradigm of how we're attacking, how we're protecting against those attacks, we'll basically be at the position that attackers will have the upper hand.
Yoshi Charati is the co-founder and CEO of A Security.
Yoshi, grateful for your time.
Please come back again soon.
