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AI Amplifies Cyber Threats, Panel at Columbus Forum Urges Inventory, Guardrails and Resiliency
Summary
Experts at a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum warned that AI both improves defense and amplifies cyberattacks, urging organizations to inventory AI use, adopt policies and run resiliency exercises; COTA cited a 2022 incident that illustrated risks to transit operations.
Columbus — At a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum titled “Cybersecurity in the Age of AI,” a panel of public‑sector and industry experts on Wednesday urged organizations to treat AI both as a defensive force‑multiplier and as an amplifier of new cyber threats, and to prioritize governance, inventory and business‑continuity planning.
Padma Sastry, adjunct faculty at The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering and the session moderator, framed the discussion with two scenarios: an AI system that automatically isolates a fast‑moving compromise and an AI‑assisted environment that can normalize an attacker’s activity so it goes unnoticed. “Now imagine the same AI that was our defender now is also our offender,” Sastry said, summarizing the central tension facing security teams.
Kirk Harrath, who served as cybersecurity strategic adviser to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine until his recent retirement and chaired Cyber Ohio, described steps the state took after a third‑party NIST assessment to raise its cybersecurity…
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