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As senior director and global head of the office of the chief information security officer at Google Cloud, Nick Godfrey oversees educating employees on cybersecurity as well as handling threat detection and mitigation. We conducted an interview with Godfrey via video call about how CISOs and other tech-focused business leaders can allocate their finite resources, getting buy-in on security from other stakeholders, and the new challenges and opportunities introduced by generative AI. Since Godfrey is based in the United Kingdom, we asked his perspective on UK-specific considerations as well.

"Bad actors are using AI-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls to extort vulnerable family members, imitate celebrities, and misinform voters. We're putting the fraudsters behind these robocalls on notice," said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.While currently, State Attorneys Generals can target the outcome of an unwanted AI-voice generated robocall-such as the scam or fraud they are seeking to perpetrate-this action now makes the act of using AI to generate the voice in these robocalls itself illegal, expanding the legal avenues through which state law enforcement agencies can hold these perpetrators accountable under the law.

Nearly half of businesses reported a growth in synthetic identity fraud, while biometric spoofs and counterfeit ID fraud attempts also increased, according to AuthenticID. Consumers and businesses alike are facing new challenges in today's digital existence, from considering the ramifications of digital identity to grappling with the use and prevalence of new tools like generative AI. In the meantime, the explosion of AI has also pushed identity fraud into a new frontier that will become a potential global shift in the coming year. 68% of people said the threat of identity fraud and scams impacts how they make purchases, open accounts, and do business.

Latio Application Security Tester is an open-source tool that enables the usage of OpenAI to scan code from the CLI for security and health issues. Easily send code changes to OpenAI without dealing with copy-pasting into ChatGPT or setting up the perfect prompt.

As organizations handle increasing amounts of data daily, AI offers advanced capabilities that would be harder to achieve with traditional methods. In this Help Net Security video, Tyler Young, CISO at BigID, explores AI's challenges, triumphs, and future in cybersecurity.

To manage an environment of increasing risks and limited resources, healthcare internal audit and compliance departments must align their risk assessments and audit work plans to areas most vital to achieving the strategic goals and business objectives of their organizations, according to Kodiak. To unlock these benefits, healthcare provider organizations need to mitigate a host of risks, such as storing and securing enormous amounts of data that is mostly protected health information, protecting the training data for AI models from malicious actors seeking to introduce bad data, and rooting out bias that can creep into in AI algorithms because of a lack of data for gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity.

In nearly every segment of our lives, AI (artificial intelligence) now makes a significant impact: It can deliver better healthcare diagnoses and treatments; detect and reduce the risk of...

All types of cyber threat actor are already using artificial intelligence to varying degrees, UK National Cyber Security Centre's analysts say, and predict that AI "Will almost certainly increase the volume and heighten the impact of cyberattacks over the next two years." Although AI is used by all types of cyber threat actors, it will particularly benefit less-skilled ones, as it will enhance their ability to carry out social engineering attacks and create convincing phishing emails.

AI and ML deserve the hype they get, but the focus can't always be on the glitz. As these advances to deliver real benefits, there's a slew of more mundane actions that have to be taken-and in 2024, this is where we'll see some of the most exciting moves.

The U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre has released a new study that finds generative AI may increase risks from cyber threats such as ransomware. The report sorted threats by potential for "Uplift" from generative AI and by the types of threat actors: nation-state sponsored, well-organized and less-skilled or opportunistic attackers.