AI broke the cybersecurity world. What’s next?
Today, I’m talking with Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime cybersecurity expert, about what a mess cybersecurity is right now.
Key points
- I’ve always enjoyed talking to Alex because he’s so direct, and you’re going to hear him say that the multibillion-dollar cybersecurity industry as we’ve known it is essentially overdue to the unrelenting, AI-boosted waves of hacks, breaches, and attacks — and this is only the beginning of how much AI is changing security.
- From what we know right now, one of the companies that was broken into was Fireworks, which is a prominent provider of AI services to a number of companies.
- It’s got a real frontier feel to it, Alex notes, just like the ’90s, when the whole idea of an always-online world was brand-new.
Lots of companies run events and deal both internally and then tell people, “Change your password, use multiple passwords, use a password manager.” What has happened over the last month is we’ve had a couple of these big bugs, PHP, Node and such.
Additional details
- It’s been a long time since you and I chatted in what you might call the “content moderation era” of internet policy discourse.
- We’re in a new era of big problems on the internet, particularly around cyber defense, cybersecurity.
- You referred to the past few weeks as “security awareness month.” Tell me what’s going on.
- What’s been less discussed is a huge number of companies have been breached.
- Okay: Alex Stamos on how AI is upending cybersecurity.
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