alt Hacker NewsJust commented this elsewhere but my takes on cybersecurity today: Its about to blow up in high demand with so many skiddies being able to hack anybody with an LLM. We are seeing an increase in websites, systems and companies being compromised at an alarming rate. I suspect one of these days we will see a headline of a compromise that will shock and horrify us all. Anyone sleeping on cyber security is a ticking timebomb.
Honestly, if you wanted to make a YC company today that targets AI in a meaningdful way, I'd say make it focused on cyber security analysis. ;)
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I am building in cybersec space. I dont think you even need script kiddies now. Internal employees run dangerous bad ops with AI that itself is a cybersec nightmare.
Whenever I tell people I work in computer security, their first question is "are you worried about AI taking your job"? To which I just laugh and respond "AI is job security"
Do you think that AI helps security offense more than defense? It's not obvious to me that it does.
> I suspect one of these days we will see a headline of a compromise that will shock and horrify us all
But we've had the shock headlines already, and nothing changes. We've seen hospitals get hit that had real-life consequences for patients, the entirety of US citizens SSNs have been breached multiple times now. Passwords as a concept are basically obsolete now. There's even more.
That bomb has already been going off.
If anything I'm seeing the opposite. Companies are throwing security to the wind to go all in on AgEnTiC AI.
If we want change irt cybersecurity, then there needs to start being real consequences for a breach. Not just free credit monitoring. The companies that are proven to be negligent should face actual financial & criminal consequences.