About three decades of ethical hacking experience and retrospection have left me with a still prescient impression. In the collective rush to embrace what was then a very new internet, even risk-averse enterprises placed a treasure trove of information online without considering the danger. It was a grossly irresponsible approach. There was no security built into the internet by design, the very notion of cybersecurity was just emerging, and for a time, any hacker worth their salt could breach most organizations at will.
Today, in a throwback to that time, we’re again amid a seismic shift with a technology that promises to change everything. And like the internet was then, artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage, with the top of the hype cycle still before us. What we need isn’t more hype. What we need is more honesty about artificial intelligence.
