Generative AI – Supercharging malware and vulnerability detection

Generative AI, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) are finding important applications in many industries including cybersecurity. Organizations are using LLMs and other Generative AI models…

Generative AI, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) are finding important applications in many industries including cybersecurity. Organizations are using LLMs and other Generative AI models effectively for the detection of Malware and Software Vulnerabilities.

Generative AI can be used in different ways for Malware and Vulnerability detection. Organizations use them for generating very powerful features for existing machine learning (ML) based detection methods. Use of LLMs for code analysis and discovering malicious intent or vulnerabilities in the code is another approach. Finally, Generative AI models, capable of generating new datasets, are effectively utilized for generating synthetic datasets to train and make the detection models more robust against adversarial attacks. We will dwell into each of these scenarios in the remaining part of the article.

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