At Netskope, we’ve talked a lot lately about how to safely enable ChatGPT and other generative AI applications such as Google Bard and Jasper. Why? As the saying goes, “There’s no going back.” Generative AI is here to stay and will have a transformative effect on our day-to-day lives whether we’re in technology or not.

ChatGPT has been taking the World by storm, but it’s bringing with it issues around cybersecurity, data protection, and data privacy. IT leaders and business leaders are looking to create policies that will help protect their people and corporate assets, but so few people really understand the technology well enough to grasp and weigh the benefits, the concerns, and implications for the cybersecurity industry, in general.

ChatGPT is a language model that generates fluent, contextually relevant responses to prompts in a conversational fashion. Because it can generate fluent text in multiple languages, it is gaining popularity among enterprise users who are using it to help with the writing process, to explore new topics, and to write code.

Experts in the cybersecurity industry are becoming increasingly concerned about artificial intelligence attacks. A 2020 report from Forrester Consulting found that 88% of decision-makers in the security industry believed offensive AI was on the horizon, and almost two-thirds of them expected AI to lead new attacks.

The rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity is witnessing the genesis of new paradigms, redefining the ways we perceive threat detection and response. Traditional approaches to cybersecurity are proving less effective against the sophistication of modern cyber threats. Among the many possible solutions, the integration of Threat Intelligence (TI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands as an impressive contender, aiming to set a new standard in the industry.

Phishing attacks are a major cyber threat that continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, causing billions of dollars in losses each year according to the recent Internet Crime Report. However, traditional offline or inline phishing detection engines are limited in how they can detect evasive phishing pages. Due to the performance requirements of inline solutions, they can only target specific campaigns and, at best, act as a basic static analyzer.

In April 2023, German artist Boris Eldagsen won the open creative award for his photographic entry entitled, Pseudomnesia: The Electrician. But, the confusing part of the event for the judges and the audience was that he refused to receive the award. The reason was that the photograph was generated by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool.