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proactive security measures and human oversight is crucial. While AI can, and does, offer unprecedented
capabilities, it also introduces new vulnerabilities that require diligent attention.

The industry's leaders agree that a thorough understanding of AI's limitations, coupled with thorough
testing and ethical considerations, is essential to protecting our digital landscape and future digital
endeavors. As we continue to integrate AI into our cybersecurity frameworks, it is imperative to remain
vigilant and adaptable, ensuring that technological advancement does not outpace our ability to secure
it.

References:

[1] RSAC 2024 keynote speaker session “Securing AI: What We’ve Learned and What Comes Next”

[2] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/ai-statistics/

[3] https://www.ibm.com/topics/artificial-intelligence

About the Author

Kylie Amison is a proud alumnus of George Mason University where she
obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Cybersecurity Engineering with a
minor in intelligence analysis.

She is working full time at a leading mobile security company as an Application
Security Analyst where her main tasking involves pen-testing mobile
applications, secure mobile application development, and contributing to
exciting projects and important initiatives that are consistently highlighted
throughout the security industry.

In addition, Kylie contributed to a startup company as a cybersecurity software developer where she was
the lead developer on one of the company’s products; a geopolitical threat intelligence engine that
combines a broad assortment of metrics and NLP sentiment analysis to calculate nuanced and real-time
threat scores per nation state. Contributing to this initiative has been pivotal in her knowledge of creating
secure software and has given her the opportunity to not only develop her first product, but to also start
her own startup company, productizing the software and capabilities created in her threat intelligence
engine. She is presently co-founder and CTO of Xenophon Analytics.

Throughout all of her experiences and coursework, she has gained essential skills in secure software
development, penetration testing, mobile security and a plethora of coding languages. She has further
aspirations of going back to school to get a graduate degree in the field of digital forensics and
cybersecurity.

Beyond academics and professional life, Kylie enjoys watching anime, reading, and doing anything with
nature involved. When asked her ultimate goal in life, she responded with “My goal in life is to learn every
single day, and I am proud to be doing just that.”

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