AI in Cybersecurity: Separating Hype from Reality

About this episode

Are AI-powered cyberattacks the existential threat some vendors claim, or is fear being used to sell products?

Andre Lynch, Senior Sales Engineer at ConnectWise, joins Ronan Murray and Ian Finlayson to look at how threat actors are using AI today, where defensive AI adds real value for security teams, and what is marketing noise.

In this episode

• How threat actors are using AI to make existing attacks more convincing
• Where AI helps security teams: speed, not replacement
• Why the volume of security logs now needs AI assistance to analyse
• What polymorphic malware means for endpoint security
• Why security professionals need to understand vibe coding and prompt validation