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Artificial intelligence is the hottest topic in tech today. AI algorithms are capable of breaking down massive amounts of data in the blink of an eye and have the potential to help us all lead healthier, happier lives. The power of machine learning means that AI-integrated telehealth services are on the rise, too. Almost every progressive provider today uses some amount of AI to track patients’ health data, schedule appointments, or automatically order medicine.

No sooner did ChatGPT and the topic of generative artificial intelligence (AI) go mainstream than every enterprise business technology leader started asking the same question. Is it safe?

The Artificial intelligence (AI) based language model, ChatGPT, has gained a lot of attention recently, and rightfully so. It is arguably the most widely popular technical innovation since the introduction of the now ubiquitous smart speakers in our homes that enable us to call out a question and receive an instant answer. But what is it, and why is it relevant to cyber security and data protection?

As a natural language processing model, ChatGPT - and other similar machine learning-based language models - is trained on huge amounts of textual data. Processing all this data, ChatGPT can produce written responses that sound like they come from a real human being. ChatGPT learns from the data it ingests. If this information includes your sensitive business data, then sharing it with ChatGPT could potentially be risky and lead to cybersecurity concerns.

As technology progresses and mobile devices become ubiquitous, a remarkably large number of people worldwide are now using smartphones. In fact, current estimates show that 6.8 billion users rely on their phones for an array of activities; but most significantly – 88% is dedicated to app usage! While the above stats show that the mobile app industry is thriving, it's also a matter of concern. Why?

Doral, Florida UTMStack, a leading innovator in cybersecurity solutions, has announced a significant breakthrough in the field of cybersecurity – an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that performs the job of a security analyst, promising to transform cybersecurity practices forever.

In a previous memo, I mentioned the discovery, made by researchers at Kaspersky, of an active campaign carried out by an advanced threat actor since 2021, targeting multiple organizations in the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea. One of the noteworthy aspects of this campaign was undoubtedly the usage of a new backdoor, called PowerMagic, characterized by the exploitation of the popular cloud storage services, Dropbox and OneDrive, as the command and control infrastructure.

The cybersecurity industry is extremely dynamic and always finds a way to accommodate the latest and best technologies available into its systems. There are two major reasons: one, because cyberattacks are constantly evolving and organizations need to have the cutting edge technologies in place to detect sophisticated attacks; and two, because of the complexity of the network architecture of many organizations.