Space Force official touts AI’s impact on cyber compliance

Seth Whitworth, who is both acting Associate Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Cyber and Data and acting chief information security officer, said he believes AI tools are shifting the way defenders review cyber risk, both for individual systems and more holistically throughout an enterprise.  

In particular, Large Language Models can be used to systematically implement fixes for the smaller but critical weaknesses that have allowed state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals to get inside victim networks and live off the land.

“Our adversaries are not looking for the massive cybersecurity vulnerabilities – we’re actually pretty good at [defending] that,” said Whitworth Tuesday at AI Talks, presented by Scoop News Group. “They’re looking for a misconfiguration, a failed update, a tiny little thing that allows them an entry point into a very connected network.”

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