MITRE is testing a new model in its new Federal AI Sandbox that could help level the playing field for cyber defenders at small organizations and address cybersecurity hiring challenges as well.
“This would not only allow large organizations to scale and track down more threats, but it may, for the first time, offer small companies the ability to have AI agents acting as cyber analysts to support their defensive missions,” Charles Clancy, MITRE senior vice president and chief technology officer told IT Brew during a recent interview.
Clancy went on to note that models like this could bring together information from various aspects of an organization’s networks to help analysts understand if they are facing an intrusion.
“If we can map out that analytic workflow process, and we can teach AI to use the same software tools that the human analyst does, then the human analyst could be managing 10 AI agents who are doing that,” Clancy said.