| ▲ | creatonez 6 hours ago | |
I mostly agree with the article. > You don’t get points for being clever Not sure about this framing, this can easily lead to the wrong conclusions. There is an arms race, yes, and defenders are going to need to spend a lot of GPU hours as a result. But it seems self-evident that the fundamentals of cybersecurity still matter a lot, and you still win by being clever. For the foreseeable future, security posture is still going to be a reflection of human systems. Human systems that are under enormous stress, but are still fundamentally human. You win by getting your security culture in order to produce (and continually reproduce) the most resilient defense that masters both the craft and the human element, not just by abandoning human systems in favor of brute forcing security problems away as your only strategy. Indeed, domains that are truly security critical will acquire this organizational discipline (what's required is the same type of discipline that the nuclear industry acquires after a meltdown, or that the aviation industry acquires after plane crashes), but it will be a bumpy ride. This article from exactly 1 year ago is almost prophetic to exactly what's going on right now and the subtle ways in which people are most likely to misunderstand the situation: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology | ||