How GenAI is Changing Your SOC for the Better with Seth Misenar

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In this mega-discussion with Seth Misenar on GenAI and LLM usage for security operations we cover some very interesting questions such as: 

- The importance of natural language processing in Sec Ops
- How AI is helping us detect phishing email
- Where and how AI is lowering the bar for entry-level security SOC roles
- Should we worry about AI hallucinations or AI taking our jobs?
- What is a reasoning model and how is it different than what we've seen so far?
- The future of AI - Multimodal interaction, Larger Context Windows, RAG, and more
- What is Agentic AI and why will it change the game?

Episode Links:

• The book from Manning Seth liked as a thoughtful accessible on-ramp: https://www.manning.com/books/introduction-to-generative-ai
• Coursera prompt engineering course series: https://coursera.org/specializations/prompt-engineering
• Gandalf Online Prompt Injection Challenges from Lakera (FYI Seth finds a lot of Lakera’s content to be really high-quality and useful): https://gandalf.lakera.ai/baseline
• “Nonsense on stilts” reference from Gary Marcus in response to the Google employee claiming LaMDA was sentient: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/nonsense-on-stilts?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf. 
• AI as a monster with a smiley face image: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-artificial-intelligence
• Ethan Mollick is the Wharton professor Seth mentioned, Seth says his “One Useful Thing” Substack is a valuable and thought provoking source: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/. Also his book, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, would also be worth checking out: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/book