AI Can Find Software Flaws,But Fixing Them Is the real Challenge

Cybersecurity professionals shouldn’t be too speedy to celebrate AI’s ability to find software vulnerabilities,because finding the flaws is only part of the problem,a former top U.S. government cyber official said on Monday.

“Some people will say, ‘That’s wonderful, we’re going to use AI to scan all of our software and find bugs quickly and fix them before attackers can take advantage,'” Rob Joyce, who served as President Donald Trump’s top cyber adviser during his first term, said at Google’s Cyber Defense Summit in Washington. “But the problem with that idea is, we aren’t good at patching.”

Google and other big tech companies might potentially be able to quickly address the flaws that AI identifies.