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Trend Micro launches GPT-based cybersecurity assistant for the copiloted security operations center 

Trend Micro Inc. today released Companion, a new generative artificial intelligence assistant based on GPT 3.5, to which security operations center teams can ask threat hunting questions.  Companion integrates with the Trend Vision One XDR or extended detection and response platform. It can explain cross-layer event alerts, decode tracker scripts, create breach mitigation recommendations, email automations ...
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Snowflake Summit will reveal the future of data apps. Here’s our take.

Our research and analysis point to a new modern data stack that is emerging where apps will be built from a coherent set of data elements that can be composed at scale. Demand for these apps will come from organizations that wish to create a digital twin of their business to represent people, places, things ...

Report: Just 42% of US workers see generative AI as a threat 

Most white-collar works aren’t all that worried that adoption of generative artificial intelligence will hurt their job security in the foreseeable future. That’s one takeaway from a survey released today by KPMG LLP that polled 1,035 U.S. white-collar workers on the latest trends affecting the workforce. It found that 43% believe generative AI poses an immediate threat to ...
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Oracle’s ‘Starlink’ cloud strategy gets interesting

A common narrative among cloud database providers is that they are winning lots of migrations from Oracle Corp. By conventional wisdom, Oracle’s market should be shriveling. Yet Oracle continues to show very strong growth numbers, with an organic annual constant dollar growth rate of 8%, including substantial increases from cloud databases. Furthermore, its Autonomous Database ...

Red Sift starts using GPT-4 to pinpoint identities and phishing sites 

Cybersecurity firm Red Sift today launched Relevance Detection, the first GPT-4 powered asset discovery and classification solution for its OnDOMAIN hostname and certification monitoring platform.  Relevance Detection uses OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 large language model to automatically discover and contextualize identities associated with DNS, WHOIS info and SSL certificates. It tells the user what identities are associated with ...
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Six technical security trends CISOs need to know in 2023

Organizations face countless potential cybersecurity threats as they pursue digital transformation and criminals evolve their attack techniques. Even the most well-funded enterprises cannot address every one of these threats. Responding effectively is about validating and prioritizing the risks that are most impactful for the business. Security and risk management leaders must refine their strategy to ...

Blink Copilot shows how generative AI can supercharge cloud security operations

No-code security automation platform Blink Ops today announced the launch of Blink Copilot, a generative artificial intelligence assistant designed to generate cloud security operations workflows on-demand.  The solution, based on LLMs provided by Microsoft Corp., Google LLC’s Bard and OpenAI LP, has been trained on thousands of security workflows so that it can automatically generate no-code ...
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IBM doubles down on generative AI and hybrid cloud

Returning to live in-person events, our overriding impression from IBM Corp.’s annual Think event a couple weeks back was that the company showed unusual discipline by confining the focus to a couple of core themes: generative AI and hybrid cloud. Given the hype around generative AI with the public preview of ChatGPT and the central ...

CIOs’ relationship with AI is complicated, but they have hopes for a promising future

Artificial intelligence — its value, risks and utility in enterprise scenarios — not surprisingly dominated the discussion at this week’s MIT CIO Symposium, one of the year’s biggest gatherings of senior information technology executives. Although the agenda revolved around tried-and-true topics such as digital transformation and the business value of IT, discussions invariably turned to ...
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Dear CEO: Your employees are already using AI to do their work. What’s your AI plan?

Employees are already using AI tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and Midjourney to do some of their work.  They are using it at work (on your network), on their phones and at home. Although AI is not yet fully integrated into every piece of software used within the workplace, one should be under no illusion that ...