Fighting Phishing with AI and Personalized Spam Filters | Fred Heiding | Be Fearless Podcast EP 16

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Attackers can weaponize artificial intelligence, but AI can also be used to supercharge cybersecurity. In this conversation with Harvard Research Fellow Fred Heiding, learn about Fred’s groundbreaking work on using AI to enhance hacking and improve cybersecurity strategies.
Hosted by Product Evangelist Dakshitaa, Fred also talks how AI can help close the skills gap in cybersecurity by automating large-scale security assessments and highlights the unique opportunity for unbiased research as an academic.
0:00 Introduction and Fred’s cybersecurity research as an academic
5:09 How AI could supercharge cybersecurity
7:36 On automating phishing campaigns using AI and its implications for cybersecurity
9:40 Personalized spam filters with the help of AI
15:13 Possible ways to scale personalized spam filters
17:33 How the threatscape has shifted to the client-side, IoT, and AI
17:33 Being a cybersecurity academic and the opportunity for unbiased research
19:41 Advice for those starting out in cybersecurity
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Capitole

1. Introduction and Fred’s cybersecurity research as an academic (00:00:00)

2. How AI could supercharge cybersecurity (00:05:09)

3. On automating phishing campaigns using AI and its implications for cybersecurity (00:07:36)

4. Personalized spam filters with the help of AI (00:09:40)

5. Possible ways to scale personalized spam filters (00:15:13)

6. Being a cybersecurity academic and the opportunity for unbiased research (00:17:33)

7. Advice for those starting out in cybersecurity (00:19:41)