Microsoft wants you to rethink your approach to cyber defense
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Cyber defenders need to shake off traditional best practices and switch from reactive patching to building inherently resilient systems in the face of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery, according to a senior security manager at Microsoft.
David Weston, group manager in the Windows team at Microsoft, told delegates at Black Hat USA that traditional approaches to vulnerability remediation fail to work in an era when AI tools are making vulnerability discovery and exploit development cheaper, faster, and more scalable.
Weston’s keynote — entitled “ The End of Rare: Defending When Offense Is Cheap ” — challenged industry vulnerability best practices that Weston said where from a time when developing exploits and mounting attacks was time consuming and expensive. That’s no longer the case, he said.