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Georgia Tech is also working on advancing the SOC , embracing security orchestration , automation and response technologies . “ We ’ re also leveraging our students to be a part of our workforce as we continue our journey towards something that looks more like an autonomous SOC .”
Future perspectives : The increasing role of AI With almost 25 years in the industry , Howell has a balanced view of what lies ahead . “ What we protect will change , but who we protect from will not change much . Nation states are still going to continue to try to steal our research and intellectual property , organised crime will continue to steal personally identifiable information .”
“ The fundamentals will not change much . At the end of the day , threat actors are very pragmatic and efficient people . So they ’ re going to continue to exploit organisations through things like phishing and social engineering techniques because it works , why break it ? They ’ ll continue to exploit existing and zero day vulnerabilities for as long as organisations refuse to invest appropriately in these areas .”
In conclusion , Howell anticipates that AI will increasingly play a role on both sides of the cybersecurity landscape . “ While the good guys like myself are adapting AI capabilities to help make sense of the complex surface area and associated risks , AI will also be leveraged by the bad guys to improve their attacks against us , and they don ’ t have to follow any rules .” cybermagazine . com 87