Gartner®:
4 Ways Generative AI Will Impact CISOs and Their Teams

Generative AI technologies have made many improvements to cybersecurity. However, at the same time, GenAI is creating a new attack surface and lowering the barrier for entry for amateur cybercriminals.

Gartner research finds that while “employees and organizations want to leverage the benefits of GenAI for their daily tasks, they are not ready to wait for security teams to be ready.” Through 2025, attacks leveraging generative AI will force security-conscious organizations to lower thresholds for detecting suspicious activity, generating more false alerts, and thus requiring more — not less — human response.

This report dives deeper into the benefits and risks CISOs and their security teams face from the adoption of Generative AI, including:

• A proliferation of overoptimistic generative AI (GenAI) announcements in the security and risk management markets could still drive promising improvements in productivity and accuracy for security teams, but also lead to waste and disappointments.
• Consumption of GenAI applications, such as large language models (LLMs), from business experiments and unmanaged, ad hoc employee adoption creates new attack surfaces and risks on individual privacy, sensitive data and organizational intellectual property (IP).
• Many businesses are rushing to capitalize on their IP and develop their own GenAI applications, creating new requirements for AI application security.
• Attackers will use GenAI. They’ve started with the creation of more seemingly authentic content, phishing lures and impersonating humans at scale. The uncertainty about how successfully they can leverage GenAI for more sophisticated attacks will require more flexible cybersecurity roadmaps.

Read this report to dive deeper into these topics and for recommendations on how to address these GenAI cybersecurity risks. 

1. Gartner 4 Ways Generative AI Will Impact CISOs and Their Teams, By Jeremy D'Hoinne, Avivah Litan, Peter Firstbrook, 29 June 2023. 
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