Security News > 2023 > January > ChatGPT: The infosec assistant that is jack of all trades, master of none

You can ask ChatGPT to write code, but the results can be mixed.

A common task of any SecOps analyst is sometimes having to process specific log files, grep for certain patterns and export them to gain meaningful insight into an incident or issue.

While this traditionally means they need to know a scripting language, ChatGPT can write these scripts for them, or even better, just do the work directly if they paste the input.

Not bad: a common script you could use to convert logs, parse log files or just grep for certain patterns.

Moving away from SecOps for a minute, what about vulnerability analysis within code? You can paste a piece of vulnerable code, and without explaining what it does you can simply ask it if it's vulnerable to cross-site scripting or any other type of vulnerability.

Finally, as ChatGPT processes natural language interactions, it can write lots of things for you, in whatever style.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/01/12/chatgpt-as-an-infosec-assistant/