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The shifting economics of cyber offense
From Training Frontier Models to Out-Think Hackers — Uri Rolls, Arithmetic & Thom Wolf, Hugging Face · ≈3:46
“The models are incredibly powerful.”
“They're able to find a bunch of zero day exploits.”
“It is true that that is changing in really dramatic ways.”
What’s in it
- Argues AI is breaking the old economics of cyber defense
- Warns defenders aren't ready for AI-found zero-day exploits
- Uses a house-and-attacker metaphor to explain the shift
Clip transcript
have way to go. Um I guess the way we've been thinking about the problem and the reason we set out to do this is it's very clear that the economics of cyber are fundamentally shifting. There's this um inherent thing that that is inherent to cyber which is that attackers need to choose their resource really wisely. And if you sort of think about cyber as as a house in a way then my job is to block every door and close every window and make sure that there's no way in. And the attacker's job is to find at least one seam, one crack, one thing I missed. And then once inside, my job is to put sensors and anything I can to keep them out. Um, and the whole stack, the entire world of cyber that we've been building for the past 20ish years has been based on this economics that the attackers have to choose their targets and we do everything we can across it to protect ourselves. It is true that that is changing in really dramatic ways. The models are incredibly powerful. Um, they're able to find a ton of primitives. They're able to find a bunch of zero day exploits. We're seeing this. There's so many news and chaos around this point. Um, and on the other hand, it seems like we as defenders don't seem to be prepared for for the this world
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