Definitely, but the issue is that even the security companies that actually do the assesments also seem to be heavily transitioning towards AI.
To be fair, in some cases, ML is actually really good (i.e in EDRs. Bypassing a ML-trained EDR is really annoying, since you can’t easily see what was it that triggered the detection, and that’s good), and that will carry most of the prevention and compensate for the vulnerable and buggy software. A good EDR and WAF can stop a lot. That is, assuming you can afford such an EDR, AV won’t do shit - but unless we get another Wannacry, no-one cares that a few dozen of people got hacked through random game/app, “it’s probably their fault for installing random crap anyway”.
I’ve also already seen a lot of people either writing reports with, or building whole tools that run “agentic penetration tests”. So, instead of a Nessus scan, or an actual Red Teamer building a scenario themselves, you get a LLM to write and decide a random course of action, and they just trust the results.
Most of the cybersecurity SaaS corporates didn’t care about the quality of the work before, just like the companies that are actually getting the services didn’t care (but had to check a checkbox). There’s not really an incentive for them to do so, worst case you get into a finger-pointing scenario (“We did have it pentested” -> “But our contract says that we can’t 100% find everything, and this wasn’t found because XYZ… Here’s a report with our methodology that we did everything right”), or the modern equivalent of “It was the AI’s fault”, maybe get a slap on the wrist, but I think that it will not get more important, but way, way more depressing than it already was three years ago.
I’d estimate it will take around a decade of unusable software and dozens of extremely major security breaches before any of the large corporations (on any side) concedes that AI was really, really stupid idea. And at that time they’ll probably also realize that they can just get away with buggy vulnerable software and not care, since breaches will be pretty common place, and probably won’t affect larger companies with good (and expensive) frontline mitigation tools.
Seeing all these AI ideas, i think security is about to get hugely more important in the near future.
Definitely, but the issue is that even the security companies that actually do the assesments also seem to be heavily transitioning towards AI.
To be fair, in some cases, ML is actually really good (i.e in EDRs. Bypassing a ML-trained EDR is really annoying, since you can’t easily see what was it that triggered the detection, and that’s good), and that will carry most of the prevention and compensate for the vulnerable and buggy software. A good EDR and WAF can stop a lot. That is, assuming you can afford such an EDR, AV won’t do shit - but unless we get another Wannacry, no-one cares that a few dozen of people got hacked through random game/app, “it’s probably their fault for installing random crap anyway”.
I’ve also already seen a lot of people either writing reports with, or building whole tools that run “agentic penetration tests”. So, instead of a Nessus scan, or an actual Red Teamer building a scenario themselves, you get a LLM to write and decide a random course of action, and they just trust the results.
Most of the cybersecurity SaaS corporates didn’t care about the quality of the work before, just like the companies that are actually getting the services didn’t care (but had to check a checkbox). There’s not really an incentive for them to do so, worst case you get into a finger-pointing scenario (“We did have it pentested” -> “But our contract says that we can’t 100% find everything, and this wasn’t found because XYZ… Here’s a report with our methodology that we did everything right”), or the modern equivalent of “It was the AI’s fault”, maybe get a slap on the wrist, but I think that it will not get more important, but way, way more depressing than it already was three years ago.
I’d estimate it will take around a decade of unusable software and dozens of extremely major security breaches before any of the large corporations (on any side) concedes that AI was really, really stupid idea. And at that time they’ll probably also realize that they can just get away with buggy vulnerable software and not care, since breaches will be pretty common place, and probably won’t affect larger companies with good (and expensive) frontline mitigation tools.