Ex-CISA chief Easterly emphasizes power of AI for software security

Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly highlighted the potential of artificial intelligence to end “cybersecurity” as it exists today, at an event hosted by Lawfare on security by design, Inside Cybersecurity reported.

Easterly pointed to CISA’s 2023 AI roadmap, which she said was created to help the agency “better defend the networks and systems and data that Americans rely on every day.”

“Now we recognized, of course, that AI would also turbo charge the attackers, and...