TPO Group CSO Tarah Wheeler Op-Ed in the Financial Times

In an opinion piece for the Financial Times, “AI’s hacking capabilities are severely underestimated,” TPO Group CSO Tarah Wheeler opens:

“A few weeks ago I gave a talk to Indiana’s public sector about how AI will impact cyber security. After the talk, an IT director told me he was being pressured by his boss to ‘get everyone on AI’ while still trying to figure out 20-year-old cyber security problems like staff using personal devices for business. I gave him a few cyber hygiene tips — but the fact is that new AI-augmented attacks are going to make the consequences of poor security far worse. The IT director was asking how to build a continental missile defence shield while his team still lacked the budget for a picket fence.”

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