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@ippsec @NetworkChuck agreed on your takes, it's a wild new frontier, and totally agree that AI governance and auditing is more important than ever so that we have oversight I think adding AI GRC elements in the pentest reports as a form of additional external auditing would be valuable at that

Probably one of my favorite @NetworkChuck Videos - youtube.com/watch?v=dbMXi9…, loved the take on his hatred for ai, but also loves it. Definitely in the same boat, it scares me how capable it has become in such a short time. The other thing that really scares me is the frontier labs will likely always be a black box. The specific thing that scares me is how they use the data they collect. AFAIK - The Terms of Service when paying for the API and Subscription are wildly different, and I don't see much talk about that. I believe the API gives the user a lot more ownership over the data, where-as subscription, it is retained longer, and there are far fewer legal protections. I hear numbers like my $200 subscription can cost them anywhere from $2000 to $10,000/m. That's a lot of money to lose, and I know the money loss is offset by many things like the majority of users not making full use of their subscription -- But I can't imagine AI always being this cheap. So, a fear is that I will become dependent on a service that I will be priced out of in the future. Additionally, many platforms (ex: reddit/twitter) put things in place to stop AIs from freely harvesting data, but I don't think those types of stops really block them when users are installing tools on their devices. For example, the "anti-bot captcha" isn't really doing much when the user has an extension that gives the Frontier Lab the data behind that block anyway. Is this data sent to them? I really don't know but it seems the threat landscape has rapidly changed when it comes to data collection. I don't hate AI; it is wildly fun and does make me feel like a "10x engineer". I just hope it's a service that always remains available, and places don't start closing the doors once they have everything they need. As odd as it sounds, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope GRC can aid us here. It would be nice if AIs obeyed when sites told them to go away, but my experience is the AI recognizes the site doesn't want them, but also acknowledges it could be prompt injection, so it trusts the user over the service. Obviously, the user could do some type of prompt injection so the AI doesn't see the refusal, and local models can always ignore it -- but atleast it would help places stop the unintentional leakages due to ignorance. I imagine it's easier to kick users off the platform that use prompt injection to bypass gaurdrails versus when nothing is stopping them. I really hope I'm just ignorant here, and someone can post why I'm wrong.

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@techspence Yes and Minimum skill build - Tier 1 SOC Recommended skill build - Tier 2 SOC

True or false, cybersecurity skills are necessary for IT admins?

@MalaPersona10 @techspence that's awesome, and yep, fundamentally under the hood not a WHOLE lot has changed, but sure is faster to feel like it has at the human interface I bet there's still applicability to the azure replacement line of certs to the MCSA too for you

@techspence @Level_Effect When I passed the MCSA (M$ Certified System Administrator) it was thanks to a UNIX book in 2006. Everything changes but the roots are the same...

remember this. cybersecurity and IT is a huge cost area to the bottom line, and just because modern tech sounds and looks good - it takes time and years for adoption to move, because $$$ some hotel with 10 year old switches isn't upgrading and spending $100k+ for some marginal gain in guest experience when they already operate on tight margins... they can spend that elsewhere on better linen and room features for a lot less and move the experience needle much more they'll wait until complete end of life to replace them and even THEN just swap the parts out if possible with used serviceable/refurbished network appliances and server parts to keep going another few+ years so if you spent all your time learning skipping network architecture and IT foundations - you'll have a lot of homework to do in that scenario, or that experienced IT tech will replace you to solve it @techspence speaking truths

@RobTerrin yes! OT is a massive area for building out specs to have to hardly ever have to touch or upgrade, good call

@Level_Effect This 1000x for OT

@techspence absolutely, now more than ever !

@Level_Effect Well said. Even in the age of AI this and that, it’s never been more important to understand the foundational elements of the work we do.

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@dedsecx01 For real

The real cuci taik

Got a security job? Thought you'd start hunting malware and threat actors? NOPE ! Right to basic IT Administration Right to basic GRC Right to establishing risk against audit requirements and a gap assessment Don't skip out on developing your policy training!