Author, speaker and security expert Pete Canavan has made it his mission to improve safety and security. Pete provides actionable tips, techniques and tactics that audiences can put to immediate use to enhance both their online security and offline safety and of those they are in charge of protecting. He makes businesses and individuals safer and more secure through his speaking, writing, coaching and consulting.
Through his IT company, PJC Services, LLC, he has been keeping his clients' systems, networks and accounts safe since 1995. He brings almost 30 years of experience as an IT and cyber security consultant to organizations looking to reduce risk and liability, rapidly improve the safety and security of their employees, and develop a safer and more productive work environment through increased awareness and confidence, proper mindset, and attitude. He also provides ongoing consulting to help ensure they are able to survive inevitable, ongoing and increasingly common cyberattacks.
Master Pete (he is a 6th degree black belt master in Hapkido and Tae Kwon Do) has trained thousands of men, women and children of all ages in mental and physical self-defense techniques via in-person and virtual classes, workshops and private instruction.
Pete has spoken on stage around the country and been featured on national and international media programs including NewsNation, NY Post, Washington Post, USA Today, plus has been on dozens of podcasts regarding his expertise on personal safety. The host of the Safety Talk podcast, Pete features safety and security experts from around the world who share their expertise and products with his global audience.
He has written five books to date. Pete resides in Pennsylvania with his wife and three sons.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can be used as a powerful tool for enhancing the cybersecurity of businesses, organizations, and associations. It represents a transformative shift in how security professionals predict, detect, and respond to threats. This technology leverages machine learning models, particularly those based on generative adversarial networks (GANs), to simulate cyber-attacks and defensive strategies. The capability of generative AI to produce new data instances that mimic real-world datasets allows cybersecurity systems to evolve rapidly, adapting to new threats as they emerge. As these AI models undergo training, they become increasingly sophisticated in understanding the nuances of security data, enabling them to identify subtle patterns of malicious activity that might elude traditional detection methods. Now that conversational large language foundational models such as ChatGPT are being used with increasing frequency, generative AI can be harnessed effectively. The potential for GenAI to impact cybersecurity is massive.
Generative AI can help with many business tasks including faster product development, enhanced customer experience, improved employee productivity and much more. Specifically with regard to improving cybersecurity, according to a recent Splunk survey, 91% of respondents siad that they are using GenAI and almost half said it will be a game-changer for their security teams. Generative AI is being used approximately 7% of the time for business continuity purposes, and that percentage is growing. It helps business prepare for cyber criminals malicious use of generative AI for a variety of cyber attacks and fraud including deep fakes and social engineering attacks. Being able to reproduce what possible scenarios employees could face enables organizations to develop controls to mitigate those scenarios.
Additionally, generative AI’s ability to analyze massive amounts of data as in learning and replicating patterns in text, it can also learn from patterns found in cyber threats and vulnerabilities. GenAI allows deeper analysis into that data including faster pattern recognition and the ability to identify potential risks more rapidly. It is in this regard where generative AI really shines in helping secure organizations from cyber attacks. By learning and being trained on vast amounts of historical data, it can then predict future threats and help mitigate them.
This session will take a look into the pros and cons of using generative AI in cybersecurity and discuss the advantages and potential solutions to the many challenges being faced by businesses today.
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