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Black Hat 2025: The Good, the Bad and the Future of AI Security
The increased use of artificial intelligence tools across industries is making security even more challenging for IT teams. While it can help security teams quickly detect attacks or patch vulnerabilities, it is also being used by bad actors to improve the efficiency and efficacy of their attacks.
At Black Hat 2025 in Las Vegas, security experts shared their insights on how AI can be used to defend and attack so that security teams are better prepared for current and future risks.
EXPLORE: Do you need security with AI, for AI or from AI? Yes.
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Participants
Walt Powell, Lead Field CISO, CDW
Ryan Fetterman, Senior Manager, AI Security Research, Cisco Foundation AI
Video Highlights
- Bad actors are using large language models to automate and improve the tasks they usually do as part of an attack.
- To implement AI tools successfully, companies need to ensure they have solid data governance and identity governance in place.
- Securing model context protocol servers amid the growing use of agentic AI will be incredibly important going forward.
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