A New Era of Cybersecurity with AI: Predictions for 2024

AI has long been crucial to cyber security, but the rise of large language models (LLMs) in 2023 brought significant changes. While LLMs have streamlined AI processes, they’ve also introduced new challenges. This report by Palo Alto Networks explores what we’ve already learned about LLMs and looks ahead to what we can expect in 2024 with AI in cyber security.

Key takeaways include:

• The biggest impact of LLMs on Cybersecurity so far is for the Security Operations Center (SOC.)
• While LLMs make it easy to process large amounts of information and enable everybody to leverage AI, adversaries can also leverage them to make attacks more efficient and exploit additional vulnerabilities.
• LLMs help gather initial data and synthesise data based on existing actual data, expanding on it to generate data about new attack sources, vectors, methods and intentions.