Don't Worry About AI Overlords. Focus on Boring Stuff You Should've Fixed Ages Ago
“We do need to put proper controls around these systems, and we're not doing a great job of that right now.”Eric Doerr, chief product officer at Tenable, concurred, saying the risks he sees among his firm’s customers are much less exciting than agentic AI going rogue on random systems. “At one extreme, we have customers who don't have MFA [multi-factor authentication] enabled in their organization,” he said. “It's not new attack vectors that are going to get you,” she said.
- ▪“We do need to put proper controls around these systems, and we're not doing a great job of that right now.”Eric Doerr, chief product officer at Tenable, concurred, saying the risks he sees among his firm’s customers are much less exciting
- ▪“At one extreme, we have customers who don't have MFA [multi-factor authentication] enabled in their organization,” he said.
- ▪“It's not new attack vectors that are going to get you,” she said.
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AMSTERDAM—Waves of headlines about agentic AI systems hacking into other computers on their own might suggest it’s time to be anxious or at least angry about the rise of aggressive agents, unless you should instead panic about AI somehow ending human life.Three experts in the field, however, aren’t having any of that yet. In a panel I moderated at the HumanX AI conference here last week, they said the biggest security risk remains not artificial but organic intelligence: flawed humans who keep failing to think things through.“If you're worried about the robot overlords getting super intelligence and deciding to burn us all for fuel, that's sci-fi much more than science right now,” said Noma Security Chief Information Security Officer Diana Kelley.
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