Engineer Explains: AI Multiplies Cybersecurity Risks
“We don’t prioritize security enough, and that’s an advocacy job for both junior and senior developers”, says Grace Francisco, technology executive and an experienced developer advocate leader with experience from companies such as Cisco, Atlassian, MongoDB and Roblox.
The widespread use of generative AI introduces a range of potential new security challenges that developers need to be aware of. Cybersecurity concerns with using genAI are abundant.
The risk is mostly in what goes in and out of LLMs, whether from using confidential data or code in the prompts or ingesting malicious code from the public materials the models are trained on.
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