What is AI?
AI is the simulation of intelligent human behavior using computers. There are many focus areas within AI, so this book will only provide a brief summary of AI and its implications for security and Zero Trust.
It’s important to distinguish between two different types of AI capabilities:
- Classic AI: The role of AI in security began by capturing and scaling expert human experience over large datasets with machine learning (ML). This takes the form of human experts training and tuning supervised ML models ahead of time and having unsupervised ML models identify clusters or patterns in the data that they surface to human experts for analysis. ML enables humans to identify patterns and anomalies in large amounts of data that can be used to identify security weaknesses, attacks, and other insights in the large complex technical estates of a modern organization.
- Generative AI: Recently, large language models (LLM) have enabled the analysis and generation of...
