Trust Has Become Cyber Security’s Most Important Battleground

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The business world sees AI as a harbinger of positive developments — a force multiplier that will help organizations automate tasks, accelerate innovation, and improve productivity. But the cyber security community is acutely aware of AI’s double-edged nature. Just as AI helps identify and fix vulnerabilities and strengthen defenses against intrusion, it is also now being used by attackers to plan, execute, and scale attacks with increasing speed and efficiency.

Check Point Research’s second annual AI Security Reportillustrates the offensive AI campaigns that AI security leaders are preparing for. Check Point documented a range of incidents where AI autonomously executed vulnerability exploitation workflows, generated thousands of commands during active intrusions, and dramatically reduced the level of expertise required to carry out sophisticated attacks. In one case, researchers analyzed a command-and-control framework that initially looked as though it had been developed by an experienced team over several months. In reality,...

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