Cybersecurity's Past, Present, and AI-Driven Future

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Is it time to hand over cybersecurity to machines amidst the exponential rise in cyber threats and breaches? We trace the evolution of cybersecurity from minimal measures in 1995 to today's overwhelmed DevSecOps. Travis McPeak, CEO and Co-founder of Resourcely, kicks off our discussion by discussing the historical shifts in the industry. Kevin Tian, CEO and Founder of Doppel, highlights the rise of AI-driven threats and deepfake campaigns. Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO and Founder of Socket, provides insights into sophisticated attacks like the XZ Utils incident. Andrej Safundzic, CEO and Founder of Lumos, discusses the future of autonomous security systems and their impact on startups. Recorded at a16z's Campfire Sessions, these top security experts share their real challenges and emphasize the need for a new approach.

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0:00.0	It's time to hand over cyber security to computers.
0:03.0	Entropy is increasing.
0:05.0	They are more apps, more entitlements, and more actors.
0:08.0	Every single year, it's exponential growth in the number of public breaches,
0:12.0	the size of the breaches, the damage in the breaches,
0:15.5	vendors still exploding.
0:17.4	How can they watch out for a bank run that's orchestrated by a deep fake campaign?
0:22.2	If this is indeed state back, this is probably not the
0:24.4	only thing they did in that two year period. In 2022, 8.8 billion dollars was lost by consumers
0:30.8	alone in the US.
0:32.9	How can we build compound businesses from day one?
0:35.9	How can you actually build a platform from day one
0:38.4	even though you start up?
0:40.2	Who does security?
0:40.9	Nobody does security. The cost to launch a disinformation campaign that's AI generated is quickly approaching
0:48.5	zero.
0:49.5	Now that the cybersecurity industry commands a market of hundreds of billions of dollars,
0:55.0	it's easy to forget how this industry, once ceased to exist.
0:59.0	And in its few decades of rapid growth, things have changed a whole lot. So in today's
1:04.4	episode we'll take you on a tour through the history of security, which can't be
1:08.4	disentangled from the history of the internet and culture. This episode was actually recorded at a 16Z's campfire sessions event this April
1:16.0	where our infrastructure team brought in some of the top security minds in the industry.
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