The cybersecurity industry is at a crossroads, and investors face serious challenges. For that reason, timing was ripe for a well-attended RSA Conference 2023 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, where theCUBE analysts reported live on keynote breakdowns, major announcements and hallway talk. The narrative from security vendors has been that organizations don’t spend enough money on cyber defense, according to theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante. But is that true?“The conventional wisdom is it will help; or at least it can’t hurt,” according to Vellante in a recent Breaking Analysis

As large language models – think ChatGPT – continue taking the world by storm, practitioners in the cybersecurity field are devising ways of integrating them.For a single-pane-of-glass view and faster detection measures, enterprises are adopting LLMs and generative artificial intelligence to ramp up cybersecurity, according to Wendi Whitmore (pictured), senior vice president of Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks Inc.“The fact that we know what generative AI is and what are large language models, that’s really then crept into the defender’s mindset as well in the landscape of technologies we’re building moving forward to accelerate some of these manual tasks,” Whitmore said