It was great to learn more about the state-of-the-art research in cybersecurity applications of AI, both from the attacker and defender’s perspectives at the Unprompted conference in Sydney today.
The talks from engineers at OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, TikTok, Slack and many others demonstrated the practical use cases for threat hunting, vulnerability discovery, detection and response to speed up and automate workflows.
Safety, cost management and scale were the top themes for me – you don’t always need the latest model for every task, deterministic scripts can complement your agentic AI pipelines, guardrails and alignment are still key. Best results live at the intersection of system automation and human judgment.
And, of course, it’s the people who make events like this so worthwhile – it was good to catch-up with old friends (and make some new ones) and exchange ideas and research. AI and cybersecurity is a team sport. Reach out if I can help.
I look forward to experimenting and applying technical insights at work.
Cyber Security Leadership 