Summary
- Abhijeet Kumawat’s article discusses the role of AI in bug bounty hunting and investigates whether the technology lives up to the hype.
- AI is making inroads into cybersecurity, and bug bounty hunting is one area where it has been lauded as a game changer.
- Kumawat examines two primary use cases for AI in bug bounty hunting:
- Automated reconnaissance, including AI-powered tools that analyze massive datasets to identify attack surfaces
- Vulnerability detection, where AI detects patterns to identify potential vulnerabilities
- While AI is an invaluable tool for hackers, the technology has its limitations and will not replace human hackers, according to Kumawat.
- Rather, AI should be used to augment the work of human hackers, providing them with valuable extra information to pursue their investigations.
By Abhijeet Kumawat
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