What happens when adversaries can benefit from the same AI tools?
Companies might turn to AI to cover cybersecurity skills gaps that their teams are scrambling to close, but that might not be enough to outmaneuver bad actors. As the technology becomes more pervasive, hackers are already using AI to breach defenses.
Hiring talent to meet such a challenge, or training new hires in-house, can take time that cannot be spared. AI can be a quick fix for this, but if bad actors can access comparable resources, how can a tech leader differentiate defenses?
In this episode of the InformationWeek Podcast, Sebastien Jean, CTO at Phison Electronics, returns to offer his perspective on what can make the difference when the bad guys also put AI to work.
He shares his thoughts on whether AI truly flattens the need to further cybersecurity skills to maintain enterprise resilience and whether that should be a goal with AI.
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Jean also discusses whether everything in cyberspace is being built around AI, or if there are other aspects of the cyber environment that require sharpened skills. If bad actors can get their hands on AI, how can companies defend themselves with the same technology?
Are human skills still relevant alongside AI resources, or are companies committed to AI leading the way in cyber resilience in the future?
Taking on the Questionable Ideas tabletop exercise again, Jean serves as an interim executive at the fictional company, responding to the new challenges brought by the goblins, kobolds and gremlins.
About the Author
Senior Editor, InformationWeek
Joao-Pierre S. Ruth edits stories for InformationWeek as well as reports on C-suite tech leaders across a multitude of industries and tech disciplines. He also hosts the InformationWeek Podcast, which brings together CIOs, CTOs, and other C-suite leadership to discuss their different approaches to addressing shared challenges. He joined InformationWeek in 2019, initially as a Senior Writer covering cloud computing and DevOps. He became a Senior Editor in 2023.
His work with InformationWeek garnered American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBE) awards in 2024. This included "Could the DOJ's Antitrust Trial vs Google Drive More Innovation?" as part of the team’s Government Coverage, which collectively won a Bronze National award and a gold Northeast regional award, as well as a bronze regional award for a Web Feature Series on the environmental impact of data-driven organizations published during Earth Month. That award included his story "How Do Supercomputers Fit With Strategies for Sustainability?"
He has been a journalist for more than 25 years, reporting on business and technology first in New Jersey, then covering the New York tech startup community, and later as a freelancer for such outlets as TheStreet, Investopedia, and Street Fight.
Joao-Pierre can be reached via email at [email protected]