Security teams are quickly realizing the benefits of Generative AI and are incorporating this technology into their security products for earlier detection of risks in the environment. AI can help security teams better recognize and resolve threats and exposures in their cloud environment. However, threat actors have also realized that AI offers them benefits as well. Security teams must leverage AI-based security to overcome AI-based threats.

Threat actors use AI in these ways:

• Improve attacker productivity: Attackers can leverage generative AI to execute more attacks, faster. AI can be used to lower the training required to write a credible lure.
• Generative AI also assists with automation and scale of attacks.
• Improve lure believability: LLMs can process large quantities of data to identify which lures work best.
• Accurate human impersonations: GenAI can create more realistic voices and video, which could undermine identity verification.
• Multivarious Attack Methods: These attacks can be harder to detect than replacing polymorphism.
• Using LLM as an autonomous controller to achieve a higher level of action decision.
• Novel attack types: This is the scariest of things. If a threat actor can conceive of an entirely new method to attack, it would be undetectable in most cases.