Google AI: In order to improve cybersecurity and overcome the “Defender’s Dilemma,” tech giant Google has announced the formation of the AI Cyber Defense Initiative in a recent blog post. The open-sourcing of Magika, an AI-powered tool for file type recognition to detect malware, is a crucial move in this regard. Currently, it is in use to protect multiple Google products. Google already uses Magika to prevent and safeguard some of its products.
“Magika outperforms conventional file identification methods providing an overall 30% accuracy boost and up to 95% higher precision on traditionally hard to identify, but potentially problematic content such as VBA, JavaScript and Powershell,” Google’s blog post reads.
Additionally, Google revealed the formation of a new AI for Cybersecurity consortium comprising 17 US, UK, and EU businesses. “This will help strengthen the transatlantic cybersecurity ecosystem with internationalization strategies, AI tools and the skills to use them,” the search giant said in the blog.
Research Funding of Around $2Million
The tech giant will also grant research funding of around USD 2 Million to University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and some other institutions. Additionally, Google said that it would be extending its $15 million Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars Program to include all of Europe. The initiative helps colleges prepare the next wave of underprivileged students to become cybersecurity specialists.
Google Secure AI Framework
The Secure AI Framework (SAIF) was introduced by Google last year to reduce the risks associated with AI systems, including “stealing the model, data poisoning of the training data, injecting malicious inputs through prompt injection and extracting confidential information in the training data,” is the foundation of the AI Cyber Defense Initiative.
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