Tech stakeholders highlight opportunities for artificial intelligence tools to bolster small business cyber defenses

Tech industry stakeholders are optimistic about making artificial intelligence tools widely available to small organizations to help them manage vulnerabilities and improve cyber defenses, while the federal government kicks off research on potential threats that could come from increased transparency around large language models.

AI tools can support unskilled professionals “a lot” in terms of cybersecurity, especially in “plenty of organizations that do not have a single cybersecurity professional,” Google’s Charley Snyder said Monday at the annual State of...