Building Trust While Adopting Gen AI

In our last Super Cyber Friday “Hacking Generative AI Anxiety: An hour of critical thinking about how to create constructive outlets around this technology,” we delved into the anxieties surrounding generative AI in cybersecurity. We heard insightful advice on navigating Gen AI adoption, emphasizing the importance of not inputting sensitive company data into AI systems. There are real challenges with visibility into AI usage within organizations and constructing clear policies to manage this emerging technology will be key. This episode offers CISOs a deep dive into balancing AI innovation with security, providing actionable insights for enabling business growth while mitigating risks. Joining us for this discussion were Russell Spitler , CEO and co-founder, Nudge Security , and Jay Wilson , CISO, Insurity .??

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Best quotes from our guests

“The policy I established at Insurity is not 'don't go play with it.' It's 'don't put company data in generative AI, right? Don't put our client's data in generative AI.' It's kind of the 'don't do dumb things' policy." - Jay Wilson

"The most effective use of generative AI is the inbound emails that I get from vendors, all of a sudden, they know a whole lot about me, they're talking about the barbecue sauce from the town I grew up in. They're doing the work that a good SDR would have done, but they're doing it in such a way that I'm sure they're hitting thousands of people at the same time because of Gen AI." - Russell Spitler

"The way that we have crafted our use of LLM technology and code pilots is by looking at what would we have traditionally asked a junior employee or an intern to do. Generative AI is really good at that. " - Russell Spitler

"The challenge we see around visibility is who's actually using these services? What services are they using? What is the nature of these services and what kind of data is going into those services? " - Russell Spitler

Quotes from the chat room

“One of the essential features of AI is its unpredictability. Connect that with users and the compound unpredictability is... large.” - Peter Schawacker , CEO of Nearshore Cyber

“GenAI is the new blockchain- every company is jumping on the bandwagon to seem ‘competitive’ and ‘visionary.’ Want your stock to go up? Add?GenAI to your business model.” - Kevin Kentner , senior consultant, CrowdStrike

“I love AI as a cybersecurity writer. Though I still have to edit and refine, writing short and long-form content shortens the timeframe, and in a world of doing more with less, it's part of my toolkit." - Susan Gibson , services marketing manager, Palo Alto Networks

“Without detection and policy, it is hard to combat shadow AI use.” - William Tulaba, CISSP , manager, security engineering, Cognex Corporation

“The scariest impersonation use case for AI is impersonating me. Famous people are easy to check on. The non-famous are at greater risk.” - Peter Schawacker

“There are a lot of meta-questions we're not asking about GenAI, including the underlying 'why?'? In the frenzy to 'keep up' many companies are not really stopping to ask whether it's even a good thing at all.” - Ian Poynter

“Gen AI is, first and foremost, a social phenomenon. What people do because of it (not just with it) is where it gets weird.”? - Peter Schawacker

“I'm always interested to see if we are seeing any generative AI in any scam text or email in the wild yet. I know it's coming” - William Tulaba