Cisco intros AI to find firewall flaws, warns this sort of thing can't be free

Cisco's executive veep for security Jeetu Patel has predicted that AI will change the infosec landscape, but that end users will eventually pay for the privilege of having a binary brainbox by their side when they go into battle. Speaking at the Asia Pacific incarnation of the Cisco Live event today in Melbourne, Australia, …

[Yorick Hunt]

"warns this sort of thing can't be free"

So the bugs and vulnerabilities are provided free of charge even on the base model devices, but security fixes/patches/upgrades "can't be free?" Same old, same old, eh?

I'd much rather have security provided free of charge, with bugs and vulnerabilities being offered as an optional extra. I'd even be happy to pay $500 a month on a five-year contract for bugs!

[amanfromMars 1]

Re: Alien Interventions ..... and AI Generations, but not as you were expecting them to follow.

The only thing Cisco’s executive veep for security Jeetu Patel nearly got right in his predictions aired at the Asia Pacific incarnation of the Cisco Live event in Melbourne, Australia, is the fiction that in the future AI will change the infosec landscape whenever the current factual reality is AI has already comprehensively and irreversibly fundamentally changed the infosec landscape with its IT Infusions of Virtually Augmentable SeeScapes/Remote AudioVisual TeleTextual Instructions for Practical Mega Meta Data Base Realisation/Autonomous Self Actualisation.

And to confuse and conflate it with disinformation and/or misinformation is to have one catastrophically advised and rendered both physically and virtually defenceless against all that AI offers, whether that be considered good and great, or not so good or even as bad as, in extremis, an existential threat.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Alien Interventions ..... and AI Generations, but not as you were expecting them to follow.

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[amanfromMars 1]

Re: Alien Interventions and AI Generations, but not as you were expecting them to follow. @t245t

Precisely, t245t, and who on Earth could possibly disagree. And don't bogart that joint, my friend

[EricM]

AI will change the infosec landscape - I bet

Networked products that employ AI in the wild not only introduce a new set of classic attack vectors, now even completely new anti-AI methodologies might be developed.

Wonder what hallucinating AIs may effect in security appliances. Will be interesting to find out.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: AI will change the infosec landscape - I bet

> .. AI in the wild not only introduce a new set of classic attack vectors ..

What if the security AI gets compromised. We'll need an anti-AI to protect us against that /s

[mIVQU#~(p,]

What if the attackers have a better AI?

[42656e4d203239]

William Gibson never thought he was predicting the future... yet here we are.

[Anonymous Coward]

why?

Why wouldn't they apply this AI to their sourcecode? Is it because mitre.org will start charging them to generate that many CVEs?

[David 164]

The attackers will be using the same tools to predict the behaviours of the defenders. How long before both sides AI are eventually thinking an acting faster than any human could hope to keep up with.

[ChrisElvidge]

A bit like the software (not AI) that casuses runs on the stock market(s)

[amanfromMars 1]

Re: How long before AI is thinking/acting faster than humanity can cope with? @David 164

Methinks we know that Rubicon is some long time ago crossed .... resulting in both the wannabe barbarian and the pathetic moron of competition and opposition extraordinarily rendered as no more threatening to bright new AI led and AI leading futures in their myriad derivative phorms and realisations for mass mainstream and alternative augmented multi media outlet presentations, as a headless chicken hawk.

And to deny it simply aids and gloriously abets its progress exploring and expanding, experimenting and exploiting further novel and noble developments deeper into remote human command with virtual machine control systems.

Do you know, El Reg, of anyone else exercising such systems ACTively in the field?

[Anonymous Coward]

Have to pay? That should depend...

If it's a bug in the design, coding, or firmware of the firewall device, that's the manufacturer's responsibility. If they charge to fix their own mess, it's time to nope right off to a competitor.

If it's a bug in the customer's configuration of the firewall device, that's the customer's responsibility. It makes sense to charge them for the service of security-checking their config. If it's this case, I could see companies having such a security check periodically, especially after any significant change; it's like a highly targeted pen test.