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“ I think that’ s one of the biggest challenges with AI,” he says.“ People consider it as a point solution, not as a part of a whole solution.”
Russ’ s approach is to“ apply the engineering mindset” to everything he does. This is not just about the technology, but the process as a whole. In the case of vulnerability detection, he explains that if the use of AI stops at detection with the rest of the process remaining manual, team workload increases tenfold.
“ Companies that experience AI burnout implement AI into one step of the process but do not consider the whole,” Russ adds.
Nation state players and the‘ fake IT worker’ Threat actors are constantly coming up with inventive strategies to steal from companies, with AI and deepfakes increasingly becoming strategic allys.
Russ explains“ A lot of nation-state players are trying to obtain access to companies via getting jobs – the‘ fake IT worker,’ where you get people trying to gain information about a company.” There is another reason for the existence of fake workers and it is a simple one: to make money for their countries:“ If you can only stay in the company three months, that’ s three months of revenue. cybermagazine. com 29