NextGov reports:
At DEF CON, Alexei Bulazel said AI-powered tools will give software developers “incredible abilities” to harden networks by adding multilayered checks to the code-scanning process and catching flaws that might otherwise slip through.
In the next era of cybersecurity, the best defensive tool may be a line of AI-assisted code, according to President Donald Trump’s cybersecurity lead in the National Security Council.
“I very strongly believe that AI will be more advantageous for defenders than offense,” said Alexei Bulazel, the NSC’s senior director for cyber. He was speaking to an audience at the DEF CON hacker convention in Nevada.
AI-powered vulnerability scanning will give human developers “incredible abilities” to boost network defenses, especially for those not trained to look for security flaws in their code, he added.
Deploying AI tools at scale can “democratize access” to software vulnerability data at low cost, he said. With the right model, “you can take AI and apply it — [like] the source code for this router, identify all the vulnerabilities and then generate patches for me — and you don’t need an elite team of government-trained hackers to do that.”
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