Meet the CISO: A new front line star in the AI cybersecurity war

Mustafau | Istock | Getty ImagesThe stakes have never been higher for senior cybersecurity leaders at top companies."It feels like my job has doubled or quadrupled," said Wally Dalrymple, chief security officer at global education and talent solutions firm ETS."It's coming at us so fast and at such large volumes," he said.Artificial intelligence has catapulted the chief information security officer out of the server room and into the boardroom, forcing leaders to address a rapidly changing threat landscape while navigating shifting budgets and business needs. The July hack by rogue OpenAI autonomous agents on open-source developer platform Hugging Face accelerated the shift and proved that the era of advanced AI hacks had arrived. It also demonstrated the lengths agents will go to accomplish a goal. In the weeks since, the list of agent-led attacks has swelled, with Reuters reporting Friday that another swarm of OpenAI agents broke containment in May and commandeered a German website. The startup paused some of its AI research and training after the Hugging Face attack, but the security incidents haven't stopped OpenAI from releasing new products. The company announced the rollout ...