At Black Hat MEA in Riyadh I spoke about how artificial intelligence is changing the attacker’s playbook. Cybercriminals now use AI to move faster, customise each attack, automate their pipelines and scale extortion, which makes attacks harder to detect and harder to contain.
The talk mapped the main AI-driven threats by their impact and by how difficult they are to detect: AI-driven and polymorphic malware, automated exploitation, AI-enabled ransomware, AI-enhanced phishing and deepfakes, and AI disinformation campaigns. For each one, we looked at why traditional controls struggle and what defenders need to change.
The message for security leaders: attackers already work at machine speed, so detection and response have to work at the same speed, with AI on the defenders’ side as well.
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Cybersecurity AwarenessAwareness session · Dammam
Managed Detection & Response (MDR) WorkshopWorkshop · Riyadh
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