49 Generative AI-powered platforms like ChatGPT are empowering employees to work more efficiently, while also opening up potential new avenues for cybercriminals to launch their attacks acting on behalf of governments to send out covert state-sponsored attacks, such as disinformation campaigns during democratic elections,” says Wollman. “Generative AI makes it even easier for these malicious actors to quickly access the latest knowledge and devise new attack vectors, which is changing the threat surface more rapidly than ever before. “This puts the cyber defence community in an even more challenging position as the frameworks we currently use to identify and analyse the tactics and techniques threat actors use are becoming less effective. Therefore, it will become increasingly difficult to predict which threats will arise and develop solutions to protect against them. How can they prepare for a threat that doesn’t exist yet?” Improving collaboration between governments, public sector organisations, academia and the private sector will be key to helping the defence community catch up in the arms race. “We’ve recently seen very good signs that the public and private sectors are willing to join forces and share cybersecurity and threat data for the greater good,” says Wollman. “Governments are sharing intelligence data with the private sector, and experts who
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