"AI threats are real - it's not some kind of urban myth": Microsoft UK security head on why your business should be prepared for a new generation of AI cyber threats

As AI becomes an increasingly important part of our everyday lives, the role it plays in cybersecurity for both attackers and defenders is coming under rising scrutiny.

Microsoft recently released its Digital Defense Report (DDR) highlighting the role that AI is playing in crafting new and more devious cyberattacks, with businesses being hit with more threats than ever before.

But Microsoft is also using its own AI tools such a Copilot to help support its digital crimes unit, showing that the attackers won’t have all the advantages.

At the recent Microsoft Frontier Tour London event, I spoke to Dr Jon Davies, Chief Security Adviser, Microsoft UK, to find out more.

AI threats are here

“Frontier AI is transforming the threat landscape,” Davies tells me. “Right now, AI threats are real, it's not an urban myth, or something we're going to see in 2030.”

The DDR found that as AI...

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