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Published inOct 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781800568662
Edition1st Edition
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Mark Simos
Mark Simos
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Mark Simos

Mark Simos helps individuals and organizations meet cybersecurity, cloud, and digital transformation goals. Mark is the Lead Cybersecurity Architect for Microsoft where he leads the development of cybersecurity reference architectures, strategies, prescriptive planning roadmaps, best practices, and other security and Zero Trust guidance. Mark also co-chairs the Zero Trust working group at The Open Group and contributes to open standards and other publications like the Zero Trust Commandments. Mark has presented at numerous conferences including Black Hat, RSA Conference, Gartner Security and Risk Management, Microsoft Ignite and BlueHat, and Financial Executives International.
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Nikhil Kumar
Nikhil Kumar
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Nikhil Kumar

Nikhil is Founder at ApTSi with prior leadership roles at Price Waterhouse and other firms. He has led setup and implementation of Digital Transformation and enterprise security initiatives (such as PCI Compliance) and built out Security Architectures. An Engineer and Computer Scientist with a passion for biology, Nikhil is an expert in Security, Information, and Computer Architecture. Known for communicating to the board and implementing with engineers and architects, he is an MIT mentor, innovator and pioneer. Nikhil has authored numerous books, standards, and articles, and presented at conferences globally. He co-chairs The Zero Trust Working Group, a global standards initiative led by The Open Group.
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What is AI?

AI is the simulation of intelligent human behavior using computers. There are many focus areas within AI, so this book will only provide a brief summary of AI and its implications for security and Zero Trust.

It’s important to distinguish between two different types of AI capabilities:

  • Classic AI: The role of AI in security began by capturing and scaling expert human experience over large datasets with machine learning (ML). This takes the form of human experts training and tuning supervised ML models ahead of time and having unsupervised ML models identify clusters or patterns in the data that they surface to human experts for analysis. ML enables humans to identify patterns and anomalies in large amounts of data that can be used to identify security weaknesses, attacks, and other insights in the large complex technical estates of a modern organization.
  • Generative AI: Recently, large language models (LLM) have enabled the analysis and generation of...
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Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800568662

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Mark Simos

Mark Simos helps individuals and organizations meet cybersecurity, cloud, and digital transformation goals. Mark is the Lead Cybersecurity Architect for Microsoft where he leads the development of cybersecurity reference architectures, strategies, prescriptive planning roadmaps, best practices, and other security and Zero Trust guidance. Mark also co-chairs the Zero Trust working group at The Open Group and contributes to open standards and other publications like the Zero Trust Commandments. Mark has presented at numerous conferences including Black Hat, RSA Conference, Gartner Security and Risk Management, Microsoft Ignite and BlueHat, and Financial Executives International.
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Nikhil Kumar

Nikhil is Founder at ApTSi with prior leadership roles at Price Waterhouse and other firms. He has led setup and implementation of Digital Transformation and enterprise security initiatives (such as PCI Compliance) and built out Security Architectures. An Engineer and Computer Scientist with a passion for biology, Nikhil is an expert in Security, Information, and Computer Architecture. Known for communicating to the board and implementing with engineers and architects, he is an MIT mentor, innovator and pioneer. Nikhil has authored numerous books, standards, and articles, and presented at conferences globally. He co-chairs The Zero Trust Working Group, a global standards initiative led by The Open Group.
Read more about Nikhil Kumar