Title: Will I lose my job? Applications of ChatGPT in cybersecurity
Cover text: ChatGPT vs. Security Experts
Cover image: ChatGPT AI cybersecurity (an image of AI fighting hackers)
Description: Recently, the artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT developed by OpenAI became hugely popular. As an AIGC model using GPT2.0, ChatGPT seems to know everything. It can answer professional questions in all kinds of industries and fields, and most of the time its answers are highly professional, with knowledge comparable to that of experts in each field. Let’s look at ChatGPT’s applications in cybersecurity.
Tags: ChatGPT, AIGC, artificial intelligence, chatbot, GPT, cybersecurity, information security,
Category: Technology
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Hi everyone, I’m Li Yang. Welcome to this video. Today we’re talking about the recently popular ChatGPT chatbot. As a cybersecurity engineer, I started using ChatGPT as soon as it was released, and it has helped me solve some problems I encountered at work. I have summarized eight major uses of ChatGPT in information-security work for your reference.
Use 1: Explaining basic concepts. When I encounter a concept I do not understand, I no longer need to search through multiple articles on a search engine. I only need to ask ChatGPT and get a general answer, which helps me learn quickly.
Use 2: Assisting penetration tests. Penetration testing is one of the tasks security engineers do most often. When we have no idea how to test a functional module, we can ask ChatGPT what risks the feature might have. When writing the report, we can also ask it for remediation suggestions.
Use 3: Threat modeling. As part of the secure development lifecycle (SDL), threat modeling plays an important role in identifying business risks. We can ask ChatGPT to generate a threat-modeling template, then modify and improve it to complete a full threat model.
Use 4: Incident handling. During incident response, we sometimes need to inspect large volumes of logs to identify an attacker’s actions and IP address, or analyze malicious activity in the logs. ChatGPT can help with these tasks too. Although it currently limits the amount of data that can be entered, this is still a direction for application.
Use 5: Code auditing. ChatGPT has an extremely strong ability to understand language, and it can understand various problems in code, so it can also be used for code audits.
Use 6: Generating code. ChatGPT can do more than understand code; it can write code too. We can ask it to write code needed for a demo, or generate a POC or EXP.
Use 7: Using tools. Some command-line tools used by security engineers have very complex arguments, and we often forget what each argument means when we do not use a tool regularly. No problem—ask ChatGPT to generate the command.
Use 8: Security consultation. When we do not understand a security regulation or policy, we can consult ChatGPT as well. It has a deeper understanding of international security regulations.
These are only some uses I thought of in my work. ChatGPT has far more applications, so if you have any practical methods in mind, please add them in the comments. I should also add that ChatGPT sometimes gives incorrect answers with complete confidence. Be especially sure to check them manually when using it—particularly when executing code. If your computer is accidentally taken over by AI, it will not take responsibility.
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