The 3 AI Security Trends You CANNOT Ignore in 2024
Are you ready for these upcoming shake-ups in cybersecurity?
2024 is right around the corner, and AI is poised to dominate just as it did in 2023.
Gartner had this to say about the coming years to give you some context.
“By 2026, more than 80% of enterprises will have used generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) application programming interfaces (APIs) or models, and/or deployed GenAI-enabled applications in production environments, up from less than 5% in 2023, according to Gartner, Inc.”
From 5% in 2023 to 80% in 2026 is absolutely mind-blowing !
Given that AI will continue to be a short-term and long-term priority for most businesses, Cybersecurity professionals and leaders need to keep a close eye on AI trends and how they will impact their risk profile.
AI security continues to be a hot topic AND a massively misunderstood one, with most companies thinking a magical product is going to secure everything
The need to secure AI systems will continue to rise .. the closer they get to business data and applications
I have already written before on how to get started in AI security if you are interested but let us take a look at what AI security trends I think are going to become popular in 2024.
1 —GenAI Video and Audio Adoption To Increase
2023 was the year of AI images and text, and I predict that 2024 will be the year that AI video and audio go fully mainstream
AI tools are going to get more and more better at emulating human speech and visuals, making them ever more difficult to detect
This will also lead to an explosion of video-generated content that is going to be a nightmare to detect
We have already seen Deepfake scams tricking people, leading to the next generation of phishing attacks
Cybersecurity professionals need to make sure their awareness material covers how to pick up tell-tale signs of AI-generated video / audio and how to verify if the information is accurate or not
2- AI-Powered Assistants To Become Mainstream
GenAI in its current form is massively impressive, but it is still an exchange of prompts, be it ChatGPT or an AI-powered bot
You tell GenAI what you want, and it responds.
Instead of a passive exchange of information .. the next wave of AI will see it move toward task-based execution.
You tell GenAI what you want, and it will go and do it by breaking down what you want into a series of sub-tasks and executing them.
This is simultaneously fantastic (and terrifying), as we have seen with tools like AutoGPT and AgentGPT.
AI-powered security analysts and AI-powered cyber-criminals are just around the corner.
This will open up a whole new area of AI security .. How do you control what an AI agent does? What sort of permission does it have? What exactly do you train AI on? What is good security behavior?
3 — AI-Powered Software Development To Increase
AI-powered software development has already been shaking things up quite a bit.
Apart from the worries of job disruption .. cybersecurity professionals also need to realize what this means from a risk perspective
The application security industry has matured quite a bit, with shift-left methodologies becoming common and developers becoming more security-aware
But what about AI-generated code, which is becoming more and more common
What if an attacker can compromise the AI model used to generate the code and fool it into generating insecure code?
How is an AI model trained on what “good” security code looks like?
AI tools may also require access to data stores to test, which could become another avenue for attackers to try and gain access.
AI-powered software development and AI-powered secure code are another space to watch as this trend develops!
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Taimur Ijlal is a multi-award-winning, information security leader with over two decades of international experience in cyber-security and IT risk management in the fin-tech industry. Taimur can be connected on LinkedIn or on his YouTube channel “Cloud Security Guy” on which he regularly posts about Cloud Security, Artificial Intelligence, and general cyber-security career advice.