#055 - Cyber AI Chronicle - The Rise of AI Task Automation

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Cyber AI Chronicle

By Simon Ganiere · 9^th February 2025

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Table of Contents

• What I learned this week

  • TL;DR

• The Rise of AI Task Automation

  • What Are OpenAI Tasks?

  • Hands-on Guide: Setting Up Tasks in ChatGPT

  • Why OpenAI Tasks Extend Beyond Standard Notificati …

  • Use Cases for Cybersecurity & AI Practitioners

  • Security Risks & Mitigation Strategies

  • Future of AI Agents & Scheduled Automation

• Worth a full read

  • The Death of the Stubborn Developer

    • Key Takeaways

  • Sygnia 2025 Global Threat Report

    • Key Takeaway

  • A Tumultuous Week for US Federal Cybersecurity Eff …

    • Key Takeaways

• Wisdom of the week

• Contact

What I learned this week

TL;DR

• OpenAI Tasks enable AI-driven automation beyond simple notifications, integrating contextual understanding and workflow automation for cybersecurity and IT operations. They support threat intelligence, SOC operations, and attack simulations, including QA validation and TTP mapping. As the technology advances, risks like AI-powered phishing and misinformation must be mitigated with access controls, encryption, and human oversight. OpenAI Tasks mark a shift toward autonomous AI agents, with competitors like Anthropic and Google shaping the future of AI-driven security automation. » READ MORE

• As much as I’m not into politics and I, for sure, don’t want this newsletter to cover politic the recent change of US administration is having an impact on cyber security. As you all know it’s a team sport so whilst those decisions are US centric they have and will continue to have an impact on the global landscape. In order to understand those decisions and assess them, nothing better than a KrebsOnSecurity blog post » READ MORE

• I’ll be back with my priority matrix as I made some conceptual progress on how to do this. Yes it will most probably involved Tasks as described below but I have also discovered Firecrawl and their Extract feature seems to be really interesting. Let me know if you have already use them