Is Your SOC Below the AI Poverty Line?
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The episode discusses the implications of AI on cybersecurity and the emerging AI poverty line with insights from Greg Notch.
The future of inequality in cybersecurity has been coming to light since the beginning of the AI evolution. Greg Notch, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Expel , recently predicted that the “AI poverty line” is projected to be more severe than the traditional security line. "The AI poverty line will be even crazier in some ways because you will either have the ability to understand and wield AI properly or you will not,” he stated. “That gulf is going to be interesting." In the recent episode of The Security Strategist podcast, host Brad LaPorte, Gartner Veteran and Advisor at Lionfish Tech Advisors , sat down with Greg Notch, CTO at Expel , to address the impact of AI on security operations. They discuss the AI poverty line and lay out a plan for how enterprises can adapt to the rapid pace of change introduced by AI. They also explore the balance between automation and human oversight, trust versus impact, and future trends in AI-driven security . What is the AI Poverty Line? According to Notch, the AI poverty line is the growing divide between security capabilities and one’s ability to effectively optimise AI. While a security poverty line has existed for a long time, an AI…
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