Meet Hackie-AI, The New Kid on the Block.

Seeing global hackers on Interpol, FBI, and Scotland Yard’s top ten list may soon become a thing of the past. Replacing the actual hackers is the evolution of the “Hackie-AI” robotic cyber warrior. Thanks in part to the dark web’s accessibility to WormGPT, FraudGPT, and other hacker-related GPT tools, robotic process automation (RPA) will become the next one to make it to the top ten list, or will it?

Leveraging their version of artificial intelligence(AI), machine learning (ML), and Large Language Models (LLMs), hackers can develop a virtual hacker and replicate its capabilities globally, hiding the origin of the prompt creator.

Gone are the mug shots showing actual human criminals across law enforcement websites. Are these images going to be replaced by a prompt? How can you arrest a virtual hacker compiled from the processed data of a cyber LLM?

While this may be far-fetched today, this exciting event should concern CISOs and CIOs. If the hackers become a virtual replica, how do you combat this new threat vector?

The good news is that many cybersecurity technology capabilities are slowly incorporate AI into their various solutions. #Trustifi, #Cisco, #Microsoft, #Crowdstrike, #Oracle, and #Google all have AI embedded into their multiple solutions.

Thanks partly to Databricks, Snowflake, and other AI-enriched companies, creating organization LLMs based on their data. These datasets incorporated into the organizations’ overall AI strategy show great promise.

So, when will law enforcement efforts help stop Hackie-AI and other variances with the rise of the virtual hacker? Like cybersecurity of the past, protection of the data and all organization assets will left up to the company to safeguard. Knowing this, CISOs and CIOs should add a new role within the organization called the “AI-Guardianship.”

This role should emulate the Director of National Intelligence(DNI) role within the federal government. The DNI oversees all intelligence efforts and resources within the U.S. government. Having an AI guardianship role would be similar within the organization.

We expect AI to become a significant component across all aspects, including product development, customer success, engineering, marketing, legal, and human capital management. The AI guardian will ensure that AI resources stay secure, develop guardrails to prevent misuse, and account for each layer of AI to help redundancy.

As AI becomes embedded within the organization, the attack surface for “Hackie-AI” becomes even more appealing and more complex to defend after the fact. Empowering an AI guardian helps keep the organizational AI assets secure, along with ensuring they are being appropriately used to help stop Hacker-AI and their cohorts yet to be created through hacker LLMs.

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