Reorienting Cybersecurity: To GenAI or not to GenAI?

This article discusses how Generative AI is reshaping cybersecurity, highlighting both adversarial uses (such as deepfakes, phishing/BEC, polymorphic malware, and attacks on AI like prompt injection, jailbreaking, and model poisoning) and defensive benefits (enhanced threat detection, SOC/SIEM automation, IAM improvements, fraud detection, malware analysis, and TTP understanding). It emphasizes the need for governance, ethical considerations, and robust frameworks to safely adopt AI, and showcases Group-IB’s AI-enabled capabilities—including MXDR and network graph analysis—to move from reactive to proactive defense across detection, investigation, and response.