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AI in Cybersecurity: Both Friend and Foe

COM SCI 751.5

AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity with enhanced threat management but also aiding cybercriminals in sophisticated attacks. This session explores AI’s dual role in cybersecurity and cybercrime, and its future implications.

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What you can learn.

Understand the growing risks of AI in cybercrime
Recognize the benefits of AI in cybersecurity
Share predictions and recommendations

About this course:

Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity by enabling better threat prevention, detection, and response, yet at the same time, fraudsters are exploiting AI for more sophisticated and powerful attacks. This session covers the evolving ways in which AI empowers both cybersecurity and cybercrime, and what the future holds. The speaker of this event will be none other than Francesco Fabbrocino. Francesco is a leading CTO in the Los Angeles Technology Community. Francesco has over 20 years of leadership and development experience working on cutting-edge digital media technologies, including a P2P CDN acquired by Akamai Technologies, an entertainment media content management, research, and syndication service acquired by the New York Times, at OpenX, designing and building one of the largest Big Data technology platforms in Southern California, and most recently, over 6 years of technical leadership and experience in the fast-growing FinTech sector. Francesco has been published numerous times, including two patents, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from USC and a Master of Science degree from UCLA, both in Computer Science. At UCLA Extension, Francesco has taught courses on Relational Databases and SQL Programming and is currently teaching a course on Managing Big Data.