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"AI is a massive power for good, but are we ready for it?"

AI is a powerful tool, but are we truly prepared for its impact? The balance between AI's benefits and the ethical concerns surrounding privacy, data security, and automation is more critical than ever. As technology advances, ensuring AI serves people—not the other way around—has become a global priority.

AI Governance in AppSec: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same

Every hype cycle brings fresh security concerns, and AI is no exception. AI governance might sound like uncharted territory, but it’s really just another evolution of the same security principles AppSec teams have been applying for years. The fundamentals—secure coding, risk management, compliance, and policy enforcement—haven’t changed.

AI-powered assessments: A new era in TPRM

UpGuard's Vendor Risk is a third-party risk management tool that delivers instant vendor insights, 360-degree assessments, and time-saving workflows—all in a centralized platform. Conduct vendor assessments at scale with an AI-powered security profile that scans vendor evidence to uncover control gaps and risks in minutes. Streamline risk management with actionable insights that help you prioritize, remediate, and track risks with precision. Generate AI-powered, point-in-time risk assessments in under 60 seconds to scale your program efficiently.

Software Will Become Agentic and the Security Lessons We Need To Learn

Ever since OpenAI publicly released ChatGPT in late 2022, people have been predicting the end of programmers. Supposedly, AI can do anything programmers can do. While I’m not convinced all programmers are going away, I wouldn’t want to be a brand new programmer, and I do think the field is definitely going to change, if not significantly shrink over time. I’m not going out on much of a limb in saying this as almost everyone thinks this. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks this.

How AI is Transforming Cyber Attacks

Since its introduction into cybersecurity in the late 1980s as a tool for detecting unusual activity, artificial intelligence (AI) has grown in popularity and functionality, with a major surge of adoption happening in the past few years, thanks to its growing ability to perform tasks faster and more accurately than humans. However, AI has never operated in isolation; it has always relied on human input. And any advanced technology that requires human input can be used for both good and bad.