Guest:

• Payal Chakravarty, Director of Product Management, Google SecOps, Google Cloud

Topics:

• What are the different use cases for GenAI in security operations and how can organizations prioritize them for maximum impact to their organization?

• We’ve heard a lot of worries from people that GenAI will replace junior team members–how do you see GenAI enabling more people to be part of the security mission?

• What are the challenges and risks associated with using GenAI in security operations?

• We’ve been down the road of automation for SOCs before–UEBA and SOAR both claimed it–and AI looks a lot like those but with way more matrix math-what are we going to get right this time that we didn’t quite live up to last time(s) around?

• Imagine a SOC or a D&R team of 2029. What AI-based magic is routine at this time? What new things are done by AI? What do humans do?

Resources:

• Live video (LinkedIn, YouTube) [live audio is not great in these]

• Practical use cases for AI in security operations, Cloud Next 2024 session by Payal

• EP168 Beyond Regular LLMs: How SecLM Enhances Security and What Teams Can Do With It

• EP169 Google Cloud Next 2024 Recap: Is Cloud an Island, So Much AI, Bots in SecOps

• 15 must-attend security sessions at Next '24

Guests:

• no guests (just us!)

Topics:

• What are some of the fun security-related launches from Next 2024 (sorry for our brief “marketing hat” moment!)?

• Any fun security vendors we spotted “in the clouds”?

• OK, what are our favorite sessions? Our own, right? Anything else we had time to go to?

• What are the new security ideas inspired by the event (you really want to listen to this part! Because “freatures”...)

• Any tricky questions at the end?

Resources:

• Live video (LinkedIn, YouTube) [live audio is not great in these]

• 15 must-attend security sessions at Next '24

• Cloud CISO Perspectives: 20 major security announcements from Next ‘24

• EP137 Next 2023 Special: Conference Recap - AI, Cloud, Security, Magical Hallway Conversations (last year!)

• EP136 Next 2023 Special: Building AI-powered Security Tools - How Do We Do It?

• EP90 Next Special - Google Cybersecurity Action Team: One Year Later!

• A cybersecurity expert's guide to securing AI products with Google SAIF Next 2024 session

• How AI can transform your approach to security Next 2024 session

Guests:

• Umesh Shankar, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Technologist for Google Cloud Security

• Scott Coull, Head of Data Science Research, Google Cloud Security

Topics:

• What does it mean to “teach AI security”? How did we make SecLM? And also: why did we make SecLM?

• What can “security trained LLM” do better vs regular LLM?

• Does making it better at security make it worse at other things that we care about?

• What can a security team do with it today? What are the “starter use cases” for SecLM?

• What has been the feedback so far in terms of impact - both from practitioners but also from team leaders?

• Are we seeing the limits of LLMs for our use cases? Is the “LLM is not magic” finally dawning?

Resources:

• “How to tackle security tasks and workflows with generative AI” (Google Cloud Next 2024 session on SecLM)

• EP136 Next 2023 Special: Building AI-powered Security Tools - How Do We Do It?

• EP144 LLMs: A Double-Edged Sword for Cloud Security? Weighing the Benefits and Risks of Large Language Models

• Supercharging security with generative AI

• Secure, Empower, Advance: How AI Can Reverse the Defender’s Dilemma?

• Considerations for Evaluating Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Tasks

• Introducing Google’s Secure AI Framework

• Deep Learning Security and Privacy Workshop

• Security Architectures for Generative AI Systems

• ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security

• Conference on Applied Machine Learning in Information Security