Security News > 2023 > September > Everything You Wanted to Know About AI Security but Were Afraid to Ask
Unlike General AI, Narrow AI is a specialized form of AI that is tuned for very specific tasks.
In cybersecurity, Narrow AI can analyze activity data and logs, searching for anomalies or signs of an attack.
Examples of Generative AI applications include ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, Dall-E, and specialized cyber assistants, like IBM Security QRadar Advisor with Watson or MSFT Security CoPilot.
According to Etay Maor, Senior Director Security Strategy at Cato Networks, "Generative AI can also help criminals. For example, they can use it to write phishing emails. Before ChatGPT, one of the basic detections of phishing emails was spelling mistakes and bad grammar. Those were indicators that something was suspicious. Now, criminals can easily write a phishing email in multiple languages in perfect grammar."
It's important to ask about the types of training data, how it has been cleaned, how it is managed, etc.
The most important question - is the AI solving your problem and is it doing it well? There's no point in paying a premium and incurring extra overhead unless the AI is solving the problem and working the way it should.
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