Episode 116: AI-Enhanced Ransomware and Defending Against It

In episode 116 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson discusses the threat of AI-enhanced ransomware along with the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to defend against it.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

• 02:10. How AI in the cybersecurity space has advanced over the past few years
• 05:12. Why cybercriminals are incorporating artificial intelligence into their attacks
• 19:24. The application of AI in various stages of a ransomware attack
• 26:10. How AI can inform different aspects of a ransomware defense strategy

Resources

• Episode 89: How Threat Actors Are Using GenAI as an Enabler
• Episode 95: AI Augmentation and Its Impact on Cyber Defense
• Episode 44: A Zero Trust Framework Knows No End
• The State of Ransomware 2024
• Ransomware: The Data Exfiltration and Double Extortion Trends
• Episode 113: Cyber Risk Prioritization as Ransomware Defense
• Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems

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