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#054 - Cyber AI Chronicle - Learning from Deepseek: Security, Innovation, and the Future

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Simon Ganiere
February 02, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 13 minutes

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Cyber AI Chronicle

By Simon Ganiere · 2nd February 2025

Welcome back!

Project Overwatch is a cutting-edge newsletter at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, technology, and resilience, designed to navigate the complexities of our rapidly evolving digital landscape. It delivers insightful analysis and actionable intelligence, empowering you to stay ahead in a world where staying informed is not just an option, but a necessity.

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What I learned this week

TL;DR

  • DeepSeek-R1’s release has ignited discussions on AI security, innovation, and control. While its open-source approach is disruptive, it also highlights serious security gaps—from exposed databases to vulnerabilities in model safeguards. The rapid progress of AI models like DeepSeek reveals how little we still understand about AI’s limits, making continuous security assessments essential. The real battle, however, is not open vs. closed AI, but who controls the application layer. The key takeaway? Enterprises must assess AI security rigorously including and even especially for open source model, plan for ongoing disruption, and invest in AI-powered applications rather than just models. » READ MORE

  • I was thinking about how to improve this section and aiming for something a little bit more actionable. I wanted to stop have a long blurb of text to start the newsletter and have something a bit more practical. Below is a first example, so keen to get feedback (you can leave a comment at the bottom of the page or just reply to this email) - including the usage of emoticon vs proper icon? the level of detail in the summary? is an actual visualization better?
    I want to automate this so that might become my 2025 coding project 😃 

🛑ACT NOW

📅 PLAN FOR THIS

📜 AI Regulations & Compliance – Organizations must align with evolving frameworks like DORA, effective January 2025, to ensure resilience.

🔍 AI security gaps (DeepSeek breach) – Highlights supply chain risks and the need for robust AI model governance. » READ MORE

🏴‍☠️ Microsoft reminded Microsoft 365 admins that its new brand impersonation protection feature for Teams Chat will be available for all customers by mid-February 2025. » READ MORE

💡 AI-driven vulnerability prioritization – Leveraging EPSS and AI-powered security triage to enhance threat detection strategies. » READ MORE & READ MORE

👀 MONITOR

🔕 IGNORE

⚡ Google Gemini exploited by nation-state hackers – AI-driven phishing and vulnerability scanning accelerating cyber operations. » READ MORE

🤖 Speculation on AGI replacing cybersecurity jobs – Long-term debate, but no immediate impact on practical security operations.

📰 Overhyped AI model cost comparisons – DeepSeek’s claim of training costs at a fraction of OpenAI’s budget is likely misleading.

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