Seriously, More AI Bullshit in Security

Right, so apparently everyone’s decided slapping “AI” on everything fixes all their problems. This article – and the Gartner Magic Quadrant it’s whining about – basically says endpoint security vendors are now obsessed with using machine learning to detect threats. Shocking. Like humans weren’t enough of a screw-up.

Here’s the gist, because I haven’t got all day:

• XDR is King (for now): Everyone’s shoving Extended Detection and Response (XDR) down your throat. It’s supposed to correlate data from everywhere, but honestly? Just more places for things to go wrong.
• AI/ML Everywhere: Behavioral analysis, threat hunting… all powered by AI. Which means false positives galore and a whole lot of wasted time chasing shadows. They’re talking about using it for root cause analysis too – because *clearly* automated systems are better at figuring out why things broke than actual people.
• Managed Detection & Response (MDR) is booming: Because nobody wants to actually do security anymore, they just want someone else to pay for the privilege of failing slower.
• Cloud-Native is the Future (apparently): Surprise! Everything’s going to the cloud. More vendor lock-in and more reliance on someone else’s infrastructure. Fantastic.
• Attack Surface Management (ASM) is getting attention: Finally, someone realized knowing what you *have* is important. But it’ll probably just generate another endless list of vulnerabilities nobody has time to fix.

The whole thing boils down to vendors trying to out-AI each other while the actual threat landscape gets more complicated by the minute. Don’t expect miracles, and for god’s sake, don’t believe the hype. You still need competent people – even if they are increasingly rare.

Honestly, it’s just a race to see who can create the most complex system that inevitably fails in spectacular fashion when something new shows up.

Link to the original garbage

Related Anecdote: Back in ’98, we had a “state of the art” intrusion detection system that flagged every single ping as a potential attack. Every. Single. One. The vendor swore it was AI-powered. Turned out it was just badly configured and generating noise. We ended up disabling it more often than not. Some things never change.

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