Palo Alto Networks to run OpenAI cyber models inside customer networks
Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year to find the attack paths that artificial intelligence-equipped intruders are most likely to take.
The expanded service, Unit 42 Frontier AI Exposure Analysis, has the models search for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, leaked credentials and unmanaged attack surfaces across applications and network assets. Findings then get tested. Unit 42 runs adversary simulation against them to establish whether an exposure is actually exploitable and how far an attacker could travel once inside.
Unit 42 said 36% of the exposures it has identified map to no known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. Many involve several gaps that only matter when chained together. Finding those takes discovery and testing, the company said.
“Unit 42 is putting the latest frontier cyber models to work across customer environments to find, validate and help remediate the attack paths that matter most,” Sam Rubin, senior vice president of Unit 42 consulting and threat intelligence, wrote in a blog post.
