I’m excited to announce my newest ebook, How AI and Quantum Affect Cyber Threats and Defenses: Shaping Your Cyber Protection Methods.
AI Threats
AI assaults will turn into the norm in 2026 and there’s a good probability that each group on the planet will likely be actively concerned in a post-quantum migration plan on the similar time. AI has been used to assault us since 2023, however it’s more likely to turn into THE means we’re attacked in 2026. AI expertise has turn into ok that hackers are going to be more and more utilizing it to efficiently assault increasingly more victims and phasing out human involvement.
I don’t say this evenly. Since hackers began utilizing AI with the discharge of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022, I’ve talked about AI and AI assaults in each presentation I’ve given. For the primary few years, after I scared audiences with tales of forthcoming AI assaults, I used to complete all my talks by saying, “Though AI assaults are coming, how you’re more likely to be attacked and exploited shouldn’t be from AI. All of the previous hacking assault strategies are working simply fantastic!”
That line at all times bought fun, together with a sigh of aid.
Nevertheless, beginning within the March to July timeframe final 12 months, AI deepfakes, socially-engineered messages and vulnerability-scanning hacking bots merely matured to some extent the place I can see the writing on the wall. 2026 would be the 12 months most malicious hacking strikes from human arms to AI bots and more and more extra life like AI deepfakes.
I’ve critical issues about AI and the roles it’s taking together with the actual threats to our lifestyle. As well as, I predict that AI goes to take over hacking this 12 months. Our children and grandkids, once they consider hacking, will doubtless consider an AI bot quite than some human adversary wearing a hoodie hunched over a keyboard. Instances are altering.
All the pieces I realized about AI I realized from and whereas working at KnowBe4. KnowBe4 has been concerned with AI efforts since 2016, even earlier than I joined. Immediately, we now have extra AI brokers than some other Human Threat Administration (HRM) vendor available in the market. Our prospects who use them lower cybersecurity danger sooner than if we permit human admins to assist them run and function our merchandise, and increasingly more AI brokers are coming!
Quantum Risk
The cryptography world has been ready for quantum computer systems to get highly effective sufficient to threaten immediately’s quantum-susceptible cryptography since Peter Shor created his now well-known Shor’s quantum algorithm in 1994. We name the day that first occurs, “Q-Day.”
The U.S. authorities has been telling organizations that they have to be ready by 2035 for at the present time.
I believe there’s a good probability that this recommendation goes to be up to date this 12 months to say that they have to be “post-quantum” ready ASAP! That’s as a result of a number of quantum laptop distributors are getting sufficient steady entangled qubits (together with different wanted elements) that I actually don’t see any means Q-Day shouldn’t be right here earlier than 2030.
Shor’s algorithm wants about 8,193 steady entangled qubits to interrupt most of immediately’s quantum-susceptible uneven cryptography (e.g., RSA, Diffie-Hellman, Elliptical Curve Cryptography, ElGamal, and so on.). Dozens of quantum laptop distributors have a whole bunch of steady entangled qubits now. A number of quantum laptop distributors plan to have many 1000’s by 2029 and a few estimate they may have 100 thousand or extra steady entangled qubits by 2030. Truth is that’s simply what we find out about immediately; there could be extra. The U.S. authorities (and China) doubtless have secret initiatives with extra qubits than we publicly find out about.
I predict that 2026 goes to be a doozy of a 12 months!
How AI and Quantum Affect Cyber Threats and Defenses: Shaping Your Cyber Protection Methods
I spent the final couple of months writing a one-stop useful resource that covers AI and quantum assaults and defenses. It introduces AI and quantum, what they’re and what they aren’t. It additionally covers the assaults utilizing them, how they’re completely different from immediately’s assaults and what they can’t do. Every part contains beneficial mitigations to guard your atmosphere in opposition to most of these assaults.
I’ve taken all the pieces I find out about each topics and put it into one ebook. Right here is the chapter format.
Half I. Introduction
- Why This E-book?
- Conventional Hacking Assaults
Half II. AI Assaults and Defenses
- Introduction To AI
- AI-Enabled Assaults
- Assaults In opposition to AI
- Defenses To AI Assaults
Half III. Quantum Assaults and Defenses
- Introduction to Quantum
- Quantum Assaults
- Defenses To Quantum Assaults
- Your Put up-Quantum Mission
- Quantum Affect on Pc Forensics
Half IV. Future Future
- How AI and Quantum Will Mix
- Coming Subsequent
- Protection Guidelines
That is my sixteenth ebook on cybersecurity and the toughest I’ve ever labored on a ebook. If you want to study extra about AI and quantum, you should purchase my ebook now on Amazon.
If in case you have any questions on both topic, AI or quantum, even if in case you have not purchased my ebook, be at liberty to e mail me at rogerg@knowbe4.com.
