Shawn Bass’ Post

Congratulations to Shankar Iyer, Renu Upadhyay (Gupta), Bharath Rangarajan, Kyle Austin, Scott Magrath, and Robert Ruelas on the completion of your spinout from Broadcom into Omnissa. I know it has been a long and difficult road and I wish you all the best in your next chapter.

For others curious about AIs use in security, read up on the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. It started in 2016 at DefCon in Las Vegas and emulated a capture the flag game commonly played by human hackers at the event. This was long before generative AI and there were multiple teams leveraging AI to perform automated defense against attacks. AI has come a long way since that time but it was proven even in 2016 that AI could aid in finding vulnerabilities, creating patches for them and successfully launching attacks. You’d be surprised at what’s possible in security with AI. I was at that event and it was ridiculous how good these automated processes were even back in 2016. That required a lot of human training but with GenAI a lot of that goes away. As yourself this, if GenAI can build source code in a fraction of the time as a human and can access gigabytes of source code, why would you think it couldn’t automatically identify vulnerabilities and TTPs of attackers? It absolutely can. The bigger issue is that the attackers are also using AI so at some point it becomes a battle of who has more time or money. Though that’s really how it’s always been anyway. 😁

As usual Caleb Sima is spot on here with his thoughts on AI hype and productivity.

This is fantastic! Couldn't agree more with this diagram. Thanks Massimo Re Ferrè and H/T Tal Klein

Not enough people want to speak up about mental health issues because they're worried about how others will perceive them. Huge props to my good friend Tal for sharing his vulnerability to shine a light on an extremely important topic. The younger generations struggle with much more than the generations before them. Please take a few minutes to watch Tal's video and consider donating a book to someone who could really use some kindness from a stranger who cares about their wellbeing. Thank you so much!