Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
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Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators," Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), told me last year. At the time, I was preoccupied w…
Cybersecurity of critical infrastructure continues to depend on the human factor: experts point out the configuration error before the threat of AI. The entry Cybersecurity of critical infrastructure: the human error weighs more than AI first appears on Merca2.
Energy infrastructures were extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks long before AI "wielding humanity" scenarios emerged, and the risk is growing daily. Experts emphasize that the real threat is not rogue AI agents, but malicious individuals using generative AI. As technology companies develop more robust models, energy companies also need to rapidly strengthen their defenses. According to cybersecurity experts, any malicious individual is now far …
Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware - National Cyber Security Consulting
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly “killing all humans,” our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack — and the risk is growing. “We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators,” Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!
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