#063 - Cyber AI Chronicle - Beyond the Hype: MCP & Cyber

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Cyber AI Chronicle

By Simon Ganiere · 6^th April 2025

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Table of Contents

• What I learned this week

  • TL;DR

• Beyond the Hype: Can MCP Truly Transform Cyber Def …

  • The Persistent Challenges of Cyber Operations

  • The MCP Approach: Breaking the Integration Paradig …

  • A Realistic Assessment: Potential SOC Applications

    • 1. Context-Aware Alert Triage

    • 2. Institutional Knowledge Retention

    • 3. Investigation Acceleration

  • Real-World Implementation Example: GhidraMCP

  • The Skeptic's View: Haven't We Seen This Movie Bef …

  • A Practical Way Forward

  • Evolution Not Revolution

• Worth a full read

  • Reasoning models don't always say what they think

    • Key takeaways

  • Agentic AI - Threats and Mitigations

    • Key Takeaways

  • Critical AI Security Guidelines - SANS

    • Key Takeaways

• Wisdom of the week

• Contact

What I learned this week

TL;DR

• Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers a standardized way for AI to access security tools and data, potentially reducing context switching and knowledge loss in SOCs. However, like SIEMs and SOARs before it, MCP won't magically solve fundamental challenges of integration complexity and data quality. Security teams should approach MCP with cautious optimism, targeting specific operational pain points rather than expecting a complete transformation of security operations. » READ MORE

• An absolute must read on AGI » https://ai-2027.com. It’s a scenario-based prediction on how AI could transform the world in a few years. It’s a mix of technical, geopolitics, society, security analysis. Absolutely love it! The scenario based planning is also so powerful (some of my work colleagues can attest how much I like the approach)…obviously it’s all predictions and we should not be reading this to the letter but more to understand the possibilities and how to prepare for them. Depending on your industry and role, running such experiments in not a bad idea.

• A lot of great security AI content was published in the last couple of weeks:

  • You can check below for content from OWASP on Agentic AI Security and from the SANS Institute as well.

  • OpenAI also provided an update on Security on the path to AGI”.

  • A couple of weeks back Microsoft provided an update on their Microsoft Security Copilot agents. Do note they are organizing a broadcast on the 9th/10th April to cover those new features, you can register here.

  • Last but not least announced Google announced yesterday Sec-Gemini v1 which is a new experimental AI model focusing on advancing cybersecurity AI frontiers. You can register here to get early access (which I did but no idea if that will works…if someone from Google is reading this please contact me 😁 ).

• A few word on the cyber threat landscape:

  • Oracle just rewrote the playbook on how not to handle a security incident. Playing on words in press release and privately confirming incident is not how this should be done and it’s a disservice to the entire industry.

  • Patch those Ivanti VPN devices…nothing new here

  • This can’t come as a surprise after SignalGate but threat actors seem to be putting more effort in compromising Signal.