Infosec pros are urged to get serious about data access control and automation to thwart AI breaches
The world is facing an AI hurricane, and organizations must batten down the hatches by securing their data vaults and deploying « bots » to combat rogue AI.
So warns, Matt Radolec, vice president of Incident Response and Cloud Operations at Varonis, who said that AI poses an existential threat to their organizations if they fail to control data access and police AI prompts.
« AI is the biggest opportunity and biggest threat to your organization, » Radolec declared, setting the tone for his RSA Conference 2024 talk « Reducing AI’s Blast Radius: How to Prevent Your First AI Breach. »
Radolec, who has spent over 15 years safeguarding sensitive data from state secrets to corporate jewels, argued that the obsession with malware, threat actors, and CVEs has distracted organizations from the real prize: data. « Data is where the damage happens. Data is where you’ll feel the pain of AI, » he cautioned.
