Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computer Science at the University of Manchester
Join us tomorrow, Wednesday 22nd May, online or in person for: The reality versus the theory – how AI will impact #cybersecurity in the next 12 months with Alex Creswell at 2pm BST Abstract: The theory of expanding attack surface suggests that agentic AI will reshape the cyber threat landscape over the next 12 months, opening up new attack vectors for threat actors to exploit. AI personal assistants will become targets due to their access to sensitive data. Accelerated corporate adoption of AI is already overwhelming security teams and could lead to malicious exploitation. In reality, cyber criminals (as opposed to state actors) are struggling to leverage AI for automating attacks. AI is enhancing phishing campaigns but there is no evidence that criminals have used AI to generate effective intrusion sets. AI advantage is currently favouring defenders. In future, AI will enable a new generation of unsophisticated criminals to launch attacks, lowering the barrier to entry into this area of crime. Private sector organisations should adopt active defence tools and monitor criminal adoption of smaller, specialised LLMs which require less compute. North West Cyber Resilience Centre
Join us this Wednesday 22nd May for Professor Alex Creswell OBE inugural seminar taking place in Kilburn building Lecture Theatre 1.3 at The University of Manchester. Alex is a distinguished professional known for his outstanding contributions to the worlds of art and technology with the Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester, Graphcore, Manchester Angels and the National Cyber Security Centre, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, GCHQ This a hybrid seminar, if you'd like to join via Zoom contact <[email protected]> https://lnkd.in/edMK99ge
