{"id":54844,"date":"2023-03-27T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=54844"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T07:43:36","slug":"sophos-demonstrates-how-to-make-chatgpt-a-cybersecurity-co-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/03\/27\/sophos-demonstrates-how-to-make-chatgpt-a-cybersecurity-co-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos demonstrates how to make ChatGPT a cybersecurity co-pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sophos<\/a>, a global player in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, recently released new research on how the cybersecurity industry can leverage GPT-3, the language model behind the now well-known ChatGPT framework, as a co-pilot to help defeat attackers. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest report, \u201cGPT for You and Me: Applying AI Language Processing to Cyber Defenses<\/a>,\u201d details projects developed by Sophos X-Ops using GPT-3’s large language models to simplify the search for malicious activity in datasets from security software, more accurately filter spam, and speed up analysis of \u201cliving off the land\u201d binary (LOLBin) attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT back in November, the security community has largely focused on the potential risks this new technology could bring. Can the AI help wannabee attackers write malware or help cybercriminals write much more convincing phishing emails? Perhaps, but, at Sophos, we\u2019ve long seen AI as an ally rather than an enemy for defenders, making it a cornerstone technology for Sophos, and GPT-3 is no different. The security community should be paying attention not just to the potential risks, but the potential opportunities GPT-3 brings,\u201d said Sean Gallagher, principal threat researcher, Sophos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophos X-Ops researchers, including SophosAI Principal Data Scientist Younghoo Lee, have been working on three prototype projects that demonstrate the potential of GPT-3 as an assistant to cybersecurity defenders. All three use a technique called \u201cfew-shot learning\u201d to train the AI model with just a few data samples, reducing the need to collect a large volume of pre-classified data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first application Sophos tested with the few-shot learning method was a natural language query interface for sifting through malicious activity in security software telemetry; specifically, Sophos tested the model against its endpoint detection and response product. With this interface, defenders can filter through the telemetry with basic English commands, removing the need for defenders to understand SQL or a database\u2019s underlying structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, Sophos tested a new spam filter using ChatGPT and found that, when compared to other machine learning models for spam filtering, the filter using GPT-3 was significantly more accurate. Finally, Sophos researchers were able to create a program to simplify the process for reverse-engineering the command lines of LOLBins. Such reverse-engineering is notoriously difficult, but also critical for understanding LOLBins\u2019 behavior\u2014and putting a stop to those types of attacks in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the growing concerns within security operation centers is the sheer amount of \u2018noise\u2019 coming in. There are just too many notifications and detections to sort through, and many companies are dealing with limited resources. We\u2019ve proved that, with something like GPT-3, we can simplify certain labor-intensive processes and give back valuable time to defenders. We are already working on incorporating some of the prototypes above into our products, and we\u2019ve made the results of our efforts available on our GitHub for those interested in testing GPT-3 in their own analysis environments. In the future, we believe that GPT-3 may very well become a standard co-pilot for security experts,\u201d said Gallagher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest report, \u201cGPT for You and Me: Applying AI Language Processing to Cyber Defenses,\u201d details projects developed by Sophos X-Ops using GPT-3’s large language models to simplify the search for malicious activity in datasets from security software, more accurately filter spam, and speed up analysis of \u201cliving off the land\u201d binary (LOLBin) attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[206,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-54844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-sophos","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}