Security leaders tout AI role in protecting critical systems at House field hearing

Cybersecurity providers, including former federal cyber officials, highlighted industry’s uses of artificial intelligence tools at a House Homeland Security field hearing on leveraging technology for security, as lawmakers and security experts weighed the rapidly evolving risks and rewards of AI and stiff challenges from China.

The committee in a May 28 session at Stanford University heard from former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official Jack Cable, now head of the firm Corridor; former CISA and Department of Homeland Security...