With at-scale attacks harnessing generative AI looming on the horizon, it\u2019s never been more critical for organisations to carefully examine their networks and user access structure to ensure they\u2019re operating with sound security fundamentals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as businesses seek to leverage generative AI to summarise and prioritise data, cybercriminals may turn to it for data distillation: putting AI to work with the troves of compromised data they\u2019ve collected to identify the best targets for an attack. The interest is there\u2014in 2023 alone, X-Force observed more than 800,000 posts about AI and GPT on Dark Web forums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While these threats are poised to worsen as cybercriminals continue to innovate ways to expedite their attacks or improve their stealth, it\u2019s not a problem without a solution. There are actions organisations can take to better safeguard their networks from identity-based attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Test & Stress Test:<\/strong> Organisations should frequently stress test environments for potential exposures and develop incident response plans for when\u2014not if\u2014a security breach occurs. The stress tests that X-Force conducted in 2023 for clients revealed that identification and authentication failures (e.g. weak password policies) were the second-most observed security risk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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   • Leverage Intuitive Tools: <\/strong>When it comes to securing users\u2019 access to networks, not only is it important to ensure a users are who they say they are, but they need to act like it too. It\u2019s paramount in today\u2019s environment to leverage behavioral analytics and biometrics as a form of verification. Habits, typing speed, and keystrokes are just a few examples of behavioural analytics that can verify a unique user is legitimate. AI-enabled tools can help detect and block anomalous behaviors before they achieve impact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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     • Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Users:<\/strong> Organisations can strengthen their credential management practices to protect system or domain credentials by implementing MFA and strong password policies to include the use of passkeys and leverage hardened system configurations that make accessing credentials more difficult.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

       What Next?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

       For those in the process of exploring AI and defining their AI strategies, it\u2019s important to consider that securing AI is broader than AI itself. Organisations can leverage existing guardrails to help secure the AI pipeline. The key tenets to focus on are securing the AI underlying training data, the models, and the use and inferencing of the models, but also the broader infrastructure surrounding the models. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

       The same access points that cybercriminals leverage to compromise enterprises pose the same risk to AI. And as organisations offload operational business processes to AI, they also need to establish governance and make operational guardrails central to their AI strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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