Ep069: AI and Cybersecurity - Navigating the New Threat Landscape with Soumya Banerjee of McKinsey and Company

Soumya Banerjee, Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, shares a comprehensive data-driven exploration of how generative AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape, revealing emerging threats, organizational challenges, and strategic opportunities for security professionals.

Topics Include:

• AI's transformative potential in cybersecurity
• Survey of 500 cybersecurity professionals
• Generative AI's impact on security landscape
• Rising sophistication of phishing attacks
• Threat actors leveraging generative AI
• Deepfake technologies circumventing biometric controls
• Cybersecurity companies' valuation and growth
• Platform versus point solution debates
• Expanding cybersecurity attack surfaces
• Cloud security emerging as top priority
• AI use cases in threat detection
• Generative AI risks for organizations
• Securing AI investments and budgets
• Data protection and sensitive information challenges
• Regulatory scrutiny of AI technologies
• Talent gaps in cybersecurity sector
• Evolving cyber insurance risk models
• Identity and access management trends
• API and machine identity security
• LLM prompt and data protection
• Enterprise strategies for AI adoption
• Emerging technologies for cybersecurity defense
• Partnerships between cybersecurity vendors
• Disclosure risks in generative AI
• Future of cybersecurity technology landscape

Participants:

·        Soumya Banerjee – Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company

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