Emerging security threats – a look at attack vectors and future challenges

An attack vector in cyber security is a pathway or method used by a hacker to illegally access a computer system or network in hopes of attempting to exploit its system vulnerabilities. These attack vectors, or security threats, vary by types of systems, locations, and exploits and are often, unfortunately, ubiquitous, as the computer systems or networks they prey upon are, too. Another unfortunate detail is that these security threats and attack vectors are not limited to only computer systems or networks.

In the near future, the authors feel there will be entire disciplines and jobs around the topic of cyber security and understanding and protecting against specifically generative AI and LLMs due to the ubiquitous nature of cyber security threats.

For example, the future use of quantum computing might have profound effects on both security protection and threats, as described in this “Schneier...