#036 - Cyber AI Chronicle - AI Use-Cases Heatmap

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Cyber AI Chronicle

By Simon Ganiere · 22^nd September 2024

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Table of Contents

• What I learned this week

  • TL;DR

• Mapping the Landscape of AI

  • AI’s Problem-Solving Toolkit: Key Use-Cases

  • AI Techniques: The Tools of the Trade

  • Beyond the Heat Map: Synthesizing AI's Complexitie …

• Worth a full read

  • Risk to the Nth-Party Degree

    • Key Takeaway

  • Cyber Risk and Financial Resilience in the S&P 500 …

    • Key Takeaway

• Wisdom of the week

• Contact

What I learned this week

TL;DR

• Generative AI models like ChatGPT may dominate headlines, but there's much more to the world of Artificial Intelligence! This article explores a range of generic AI use-cases and the different AI technology. Discover with the help of visualisation - heat map - which AI technology is best to support a use-case. Next week we will deep dive on the implication from a cyber perspective » READ MORE

• LinkedIn was in the news this week, following a change of the User Agreement they offer by default to use their members data for generative AI training. It obviously created some noise, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office complain about it and the setting was disabled in the UK. This is applicable only if you live outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the UK. If you want to opt out here are the instructions.

• In the AI world, Sam Altman was speaking at T-Mobile’s Capital Market Day. You can find the YouTube video here. In a nutshell: o1 model (see my summary from last week) is described as the first AI system with advanced reasoning. He also outlined five levels of AI development, with o1 at level 2 (reasoners) and suggested level 3 (agents) could follow “relatively quickly”.

• The world of cyber is still a mixed bag of good news and bad news:
  For the good news, we have the disruption of “Raptor Train” botnet, which was used by Chinese APT Flax Typhoon. Germany shuts down 47 cryptocurrency exchange services used by cybercriminals. Seventeen people got arrested in the takedown of a phishing service with nearly 500,000 victims. AWS launched a first public vulnerability disclosure program…but not yet a public bug bounty.
  On the bad news, well I can add again the details about Raptor Train 🙃 Vulnerabilities are still being disclosed at pace, from Atlassian to Ivanti via VMware.