AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

This week, Chris is joined by Gregory Richardson, Vice President and Global Advisory CISO at BlackBerry, and Ismael Valenzuela, Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry. They address how AI is changing the threat landscape, why human defenders remain a key part of our cyber defenses, and the explain the AI standoff between cyber threat actors and cyber defenders.

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Show Notes:

• The AI Standoff: Attackers vs. Defenders | Blackberry Blog
• Blackberry

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1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly (00:00:35)

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3. AI standoff (00:03:33)

4. The problem to solve (00:05:53)

5. Cybercrime rising (00:08:23)

6. Blackberry's role (00:13:12)

7. Sponsor: Notion (00:20:22)

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8. AI in the ecosystem (00:22:52)

9. Gartner hype cycle (00:29:36)

10. Sponsor: Eight Sleep (00:36:09)

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11. There are no replicants (00:38:49)

12. Upcoming changes (00:48:36)

13. Outro (00:54:36)