3 reasons Autonomous AI is going to change Cybersecurity forever
The cybersecurity world is going to change forever once Autonomous AI takes off
Autonomous AI is going to be for 2024 to 2025 what ChatGPT was for 2022 to 2023.
What is Autonomous AI you might ask ?
Autonomous Intelligent Systems are AI software systems that act independently of direct human supervision
Take the example of self driving cars but now apply that to a Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT and you have the new breed of tools like AutoGPT and AgentGPT
Although still very experimental, these tools that can operate without the need for back and forth prompting like ChatGPT and have captured the imaginations of tech pros everywhere.
Just provide them a problem and seen them execute tasks and sub-tasks independently based on the initial problem statement
AutoGPT required you to download it locally and was a bit rough around the edges but new web based tools like AgentGPT and GodMode do not even require anything to be installed with a sleek user friendly interface !
All that is needed to get started with these tools is an API key from OpenAI
Ahttps://agentgpt.reworkd.ai/
Here is why I think this is going to be a significant game changer in the field of Cybersecurity 👇
1️⃣ Next-Level Automation
Autonomous AI takes the power of LLMs and applies it to task execution instead of generating human like responses
Imagine the amount of cybersecurity tasks that can be automated once these become mainstream with the backing of enterprise level security companies.
Penetration Testing ?
User recertifications ?
Threat Models ?
You can potentially having a small army of AI-powered bots performing activities like scanning, analyzing, and taking actions based on alerts.
This level of automation goes far beyond what we witness today, empowering security teams in a way that was not possible before
This also means you should skill up NOW if you have a job that can be automated by AI
2️⃣ Opportunity for Malicious Exploitation
Take the exact same benefit I highlighted and flip it upside down and you have massive risk of malicious usage of Autonomous AI
Instead of a small army of AI bots helping you secure your environment, image a single cyber criminal commanding a small army of AI bots that are intelligently trying to break into your environment
AI bots could be divided into specialized attacks like phishing, malware, DDOS etc.
This raises concerns about the potential for increased sophistication and scale of cyber threats.
3️⃣ New Era of Cyber Risks
As I mentioned these tools are still experimental with a lot of questions around their usage but it is foolish to assume they will not get adopted at scale once more streamlined versions come out
Their potential goes far beyond that of AI powered chatbots
We will be forced to mitigate new types of risks which did not exist before
For example .. how exactly do you secure the permissions of an AI bot that needs access to your critical systems ? How do you control what information it is accessing ? How do you educate it on what types of emails it can write ? .. the mind boggles
We are truly entering uncharted territory here and cybersecurity professionals must be ready to adapt to this new landscape