Joe Fay reports:
Ex-CISA head Jen Easterly claims AI could spell the end of the cybersecurity industry, as the sloppy software and vulnerabilities that criminals rely on will be tracked down faster than ever.
Speaking at AuditBoard’s user conference in San Diego, Easterly said the threat landscape has never stopped evolving.
The proliferation of data, platforms, and devices meant “we’ve expanded the attack surface for cyber threat actors like China and Russia and Iran and North Korea and gangs of cybercriminals.” Easterly said that if cybercrime was a country, it would be the third biggest in the world, just behind the US and China.
But ultimately, this is all the result of bad software, ridden with vulnerabilities.
“We don’t have a cybersecurity problem. We have a software quality problem,” she said. The main reason for this was software vendors’ prioritization of speed to market and reducing cost over safety.
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