{"id":1938,"date":"2020-03-25T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T08:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techxmedia.com\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:43:38","slug":"interview-dan-woods-vp-shape-intelligence-center-shape-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/interview-dan-woods-vp-shape-intelligence-center-shape-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Dan Woods, VP – Shape Intelligence Center, Shape Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How will Shape Intelligence fit into F5 Networks? Please talk about the merger and some key takeaways for customers from this.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data scientists and engineers in the Shape Intelligence Center analyze billions of transactions that pass through Shape Security devices every day in order to extract intelligence, such as new attack tools, malware, compromised devices, and monetization schemes that target its customers. F5, powers applications from development through their entire lifecycle across any multi-cloud environment, in order to deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences for enterprises. Together, Shape and F5 will have a greatly expanded ability to gather and share intelligence that will help all customers make well-informed decisions about the very real threats that face their organizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does Shape\u2019s\nplatform work, in a nutshell?<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shape leverages the fact that criminals use\nand access web and mobile applications differently than customers. They lie\nabout device and browser attributes, they type differently, they handle their\ndevices differently, they move their mouse or touch the screen differently,\nthey navigate workflows differently, etc. No matter how subtle, Shape\nidentifies these differences<\/em>. Shape uses hardened JavaScript (for web\napplications) and an SDK (for mobile applications) to collect proprietary\nsignals, deploys human-assisted AI\/ML across the collected signals (both in\nreal time and retrospectively),<\/em> and then mitigates the malicious traffic\nas a managed service with guaranteed outcomes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is AI being used by cyber criminals and\nwhy should organizations be concerned?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI and ML are among the most widely\nmisunderstood and misused phrases in cyber security today (blockchain is\nprobably a close third). To complicate matters, what is even considered AI has\nchanged. For example, the use of OCR to solve CAPTCHAs was originally an area\nof AI but it has become so commonplace today, and AI has evolved so\nconsiderably, that many people don\u2019t even consider it AI anymore. But of course\nit is, especially when using an ML model. Also, simulation and passing Turing\ntests should of course be considered an AI goal, which is exactly what cyber\ncriminals are doing in the case of large-scale fraud and abuse. As a third\nexample, cyber criminals will use AI to generate entirely synthetic identities,\nwhich appear to be real humans with real faces, but who don\u2019t actually exist.\nOver time, these \u201chumans\u201d take out significant lines of credit and then vanish\nfrom the face of the earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there are many examples of how cyber\ncriminals could<\/em> use AI and ML, cyber criminals don\u2019t typically use AI or\nML unless they\u2019re forced to in order to circumvent some countermeasure, and\nsadly, traditional countermeasures in widespread use today can be defeated\nwithout using AI or ML. Organizations should be concerned because their current\ncountermeasures are failing more than they realize, and AI and ML, which are\nalready available to cyber criminals, will defeat most organizations\u2019 future\ncountermeasures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which industries are more vulnerable to AI-enabled cyber threats?<\/em><\/strong> What can the businesses do to eradicate them?<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any organization that offers its customers something of value is vulnerable. So, all of them. This is not a DIY project. Organizations must collect and analyze signals in real time, deploy countermeasures using attributes attackers cannot easily spoof or change, conduct constant retrospective analysis to detect attackers who retool, and rapidly deploy new countermeasures as new threats emerge. This process never ends. Organizations that lack the resources to do this effectively\u2014which is most of them\u2014must partner with a vendor who specializes in AI- and ML-supported cyber security. Presently\u2014and this is important\u2014any AI and ML component must be human-assisted. AI and ML are simply not ready to make unilateral and unsupervised decisions that impact your customers. So either the organization needs to have some spare carbon units, or the organization should select a vendor that offers protection as a managed service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Together, Shape and F5 will have a greatly expanded ability to gather and share intelligence that will help all customers make well-informed decisions about the very real threats that face their organizations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9618],"tags":[71],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-pick","tag-ai"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Dan-Woods-e1585122792554.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}