Use of generative AI (artificial intelligence) in internet security is what Amazon Web Services (AWS) see in many aspect of digital technology this year since more businesses demand faster threat detection to secure their data from attacks.
AWS Commercial head of security for Asia Pacific and Japan Phil Rodrigues, in an online press briefing, said they have been using generative AI to speed up detection and remediation of vulnerabilities during the development cycle system and after its launch.
“It’s going to become the indispensable tool for advancing security measures by amplifying what we’re calling human capabilities,” he said. “AI is already associated with time-consuming tasks and cyber security such as threat monitoring for a long time. But now generative AI is going further by making information easier to find and digest and suggesting solutions.”
Rodrigues also expect more companies to use generative AI to support internet security resilience as digital customers expect services to be always online and always available.
“When critical IT systems go offline headlines are often made. We think that the move towards generative AI is going to increase the focus on resiliency at scale. For example, the requirements for uptime on a Gen AI customer feedback chatbot could be lower and much different from one that’s actually assisting a customer and finalizing the scale or the big differences.”
Protecting credentials protect sensitive data
AWS also acknowledges the fact that companies will continue to beef up authorization as part of their zero trust strategy due to the fact that most online threats target user credentials to gain sensitive data.
Rodrigues said zero trust security is similar to a bank, where a customer is allowed to walk inside the door, go to the counter, and easily make a deposit but only to his safe deposit box for example.
“They’ll never get to go behind the counter and they’ll never get to go actually into the bank vault. That’s the difference between authentication which is being allowed in the door and authorization which is being allowed to take all of those increasingly critical steps inside.”
When put into good use by internet security teams, generative AI can combat the 100 million online threat activities that occur globally which AWS monitors using their MadPot tool.
Rodrigues reported that people in Asia Pacific and the Philippines continue to be the target of malicious activities that monitor how individuals authenticate their usernames or passwords and their security keys.