At Amazon Web Services (AWS), artificial intelligence is already compressing security work that once took months into minutes.
In the old world, human red teams would find vulnerabilities, write reports, refine those reports, and eventually hand them to defenders, who would then begin building detections or fixes, Steve Schmidt, chief security officer at AWS, tells CSO. That process could take “two, four, six, eight, 10 months,” Schmidt says.
“Now with proper application of AI, we can have the detections built for the problems the red team finds in 15 minutes-ish,” he says. “I think the outside is about four hours.”
That kind of workflow offers a glimpse of what AI could make possible for th...