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Good morning. The first day of RSAC is in the bag, and as expected, you can’t swing a cat without hitting an artificial intelligence agent.
“It's gonna be a game changer,” said Brad Jones, chief security officer at cloud data-storage company Snowflake, as five consecutive self-driving Waymo taxis passed behind him.
“It’s one thing to just interact with AI and get some responses back, but for it to actually take action on your behalf, or to take action on its own behalf, that is a very interesting shift,” he said.
Executives deny that the ultimate aim is taking humans out of the loop. They say AI is augmentative and that, in any case, there just aren’t enough workers right now. But the inevitable consequence is that the less-crucial jobs in cybersecurity won’t be done by humans in the future.
The barrage of security alerts, for instance, currently managed partly by AI and partly by frazzled, red-eyed analysts, is likely to be primarily machine-based in the future.
“Get the human in the loop where human judgment is required, human instinct is required,” said Jeetu Patel, chief product officer at Cisco Systems, which he says has spent “billions” on AI.
Not a great time to be a tier-one or tier-two security operations center analyst, then. Unless you’re an algorithm.
Also today: Getting a startup on its feet after a cyberattack can cost a fortune. More often than not, investors get stuck with the bill. Read our story.
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