#018 - Cyber AI Chronicle - Is Agentic THE next step?

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Cyber AI Chronicle

By Simon Ganiere · 5^th May 2024

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Table of Contents

• What I learned this week

  • TL;DR

  • Is Agentic THE Future?

• Worth a full read

  • No, LLM Agents can not Autonomously Exploit One-da …

    • Key Takeaway

  • Goldman Sachs - Marco Argenti - CIO Interview

    • Key Takeaway

• Some more reading

• Wisdom of the week

• Contact

What I learned this week

TL;DR

• In the news this week, Change Healthcare CEO testify on the ransomware attack they suffered earlier this year. It did bring your weekly reminder of security 101: lack of MFA on Citrix devices. Interesting twist apparently those Citrix devices came via an acquisition they did recently.

• On the back of the US Cyber Safety Review Board report and multiple security issues over the last couple of years, Microsoft has decided to “make security our top priority at Microsoft, above all else”. Microsoft outlined three security principles and six security pillars, all of this being tied to some of Microsoft’s leadership compensation.

• Interesting counter-arguments on the autonomous hacking capability of LLM. I did mention the initial research paper in one of the previous editions. We are for sure not (yet?) in a world where autonomous hack can be done out of thin air. Don’t think any of the LLMs are up to that right now. The initial research paper was a bit obscure in terms of prompts being used and overall setup.

• Talking about Agentic LLM, this is what I have been looking at this week. Not that you can deep dive into this in one week 😉 but you got to start somewhere. Currently LLMs are good to generate text and this is how most of us use them. Ask a question and get some content back. Agentic workflow brings a whole new world as you can task them, tell them to use tools and, the interesting part from my perspective, get multiple agents to collaborate. There has been a lot of talk about Agentic LLM so let’s deep dive into some of the design patterns and most important concept.