Transforming Security Management With GenAI-powered Assistants How to streamline cyber security operations, save time and costs, and significantly improve outcomes

CONTENTS

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03 The evolving threat landscape

08 Important security considerations

09 Essential use cases

11 Conclusion

04 The emergence of GenAI-powered assistants 05 How it works 05 Main features and capabilities 06 Key benefits

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THE EVOLVING THREAT L ANDSCAPE Today’s threat landscape is dynamic, complex, and marked by a dramatic increase in frequency and severity of attacks. According to Check Point Research, global cyber attacks have surged by 75%, with ransomware incidents alone increasing by 90%.

The sophistication of cyber criminals is growing Threat actors are increasingly using AI, machine learning, and other advanced technologies to by pass traditional security defenses.

The attack surface is expanding The shift to hybrid work combined with the proliferation of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and cloud services has created more entry points that cyber criminals can exploit.

There is a shortage of security skills With only 85 security experts available for every 100 open positions, organizations are struggling to fill critical roles and maintain adequate security defenses.

This combination of forces has made protecting the organization more daunting than ever. What today’s cyber security organizations need is a new way to augment the skills of human experts with technology to get their jobs done faster and more efficiently.

The top challenge in pursuing cyber security initiatives is now cyber

security skill gaps.

CompTIA

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THE EMERGENCE OF GENAI-POWERED ASSISTANTS

“In essence, GenAI is not just an evolution of existing AI technologies but a transformative force that introduces new dynamics into the cyber security landscape.” IDC

Generative AI (GenAI) is reinventing how we work – from enabling developers to debug code faster and finance to ensure audit accuracy, to scaling content creation for marketers.

It is redefining roles and even whole industries. Its impact on cyber security is already evident, with GenAI-powered assistants introducing the new paradigm required for tackling the growing wave of security threats.

of organizations are realizing very significant or significant value from GenAI

The Cisco 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study

of organizations agree or strongly agree that they expect GenAI to help accelerate

the software development cycle.

Generative AI for Cyber security: An Optimistic but Uncertain Future

79%

94%

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AUTOMATING routine tasks as well as complex, multi-step activities.

How it works GenAI assistants can analyze unprecedented volumes of data, spot patterns, extract insights, and generate content and recommendations, engaging with users in a conversational manner.

Based on learned data patterns, they create and deliver new outputs that align with the context and address the prompts they receive, providing relevant suggestions, answering complex questions, and creating content.

Main features and capabilities

INTERACTING in a natural conversation via chat, making it easy for practitioners to communicate and execute tasks.

PROVIDING contextualized and complete answers to prompts by knowing the organization’s policies, access rules, objects and logs, as well as product-specific documentation.

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Key benefits The GenAI assistant serves as an always-on virtual team member who is available on-demand to provide real-time, accurate insights and perform a wide range of tasks with speed and accuracy, from incident investigation, to analysis, playbook automation, threat hunting, and more.

Among the main benefits are:

• Facilitating easy access to and cross-referencing data

• Simplifying complex queries

• Providing real-time, accurate, up-to-date, detailed insights

• Optimizing workflows

• Eliminating the need to shift through documentation

• Increasing team efficiency by enabling them to focus on more important tasks

• Decreasing frustration and improving employee retention

• Decreasing IT, security operations, and support task time by 90%

• Accelerating administrative tasks by as much as 90%

• Increasing productivity without increasing headcount

• Reducing financial loss due to security breaches

• Enabling expert results from junior team members

• Increasing the effectiveness of current tools

• Augmenting threat hunting and analysis

• Enhancing threat management

• Improving incident response and recovery

STREAMLINING OPERATIONS SAVING TIME AND COSTS IMPROVING SECURITY OUTCOMES

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AREAS CONSIDERED MOST PROMISING FOR GENAI IN CYBER SECURITY

Improving security hygiene and posture management

Guiding staff with recommended actions

Accelerating threat detection and response

Training entry-level cyber security personnel

Creating summary security reports

Analyzing threat intelligence

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group survey

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IMPORTANT SECURIT Y CONSIDERATIONS While GenAI assistants offer remarkable potential to revolutionize security management, it is critical to approach their implementation with certain security considerations in mind:

ENSURE A CLOSED ENVIRONMENT Creating a closed environment for data processing is crucial to preventing unauthorized access. By isolating data and limiting interaction with external networks, organizations can reduce the risk of data breaches and leaks.

UTILIZE RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION (RAG) RAG ensures that customer data is not used for model training and prevents unauthorized data extraction from the GenAI assistant.

TRAIN MODELS ON SYNTHETIC DATA Use synthetic or anonymized data for model training. This approach protects real data from exposure while still enabling model development.

ESTABLISH ROBUST SECURITY CONTROLS These include:

• Not sharing sensitive data with external users or third parties, including LLM vendors

• Securing data storage to prevent customer data from being used for future model training

• Implementing a prompt firewall to protect against unauthorized data extraction or misuse

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ESSENTIAL USE CASES With real-time, prompt-based guidance and execution, GenAI assistants power a wide range of practical use cases. The result is proactive defense with unprecedented agility and efficiency.

MANAGING NEW VULNERABILITIES Users can receive real-time answers to questions such as: Is there a new CVE? What are the associated risks? Are there any ongoing exploits targeting my systems? What remediation steps should I take?

CONFIGURING FIREWALL RULES With GenAI assistants, users can receive step-by-step guidance on assessing and managing firewall rules, configuring filtering rules, integrating with identity providers, and handling other configuration tasks. The assistant can also automate rule application, if prompted by the user.

BLOCKING ACCESS TO SPECIFIC WEBSITES The GenAI assistant can guide users in configuring web filtering rules, including accessing the admin portal, defining URLs to block, setting rule precedence, and applying the rule effectively.

REAL-TIME THREAT DETECTION AND RESPONSE The GenAI assistant in XDR streamlines investigations, automates key tasks and offers natural language threat hunting. It delivers actionable insights, concise incident summaries, and recommended actions, significantly reducing response times and simplifying security operations while enhancing overall efficiency and protection against complex cyber threats.

CREATING AN AUTOMATIC, CUSTOMIZED NEWSFEED OF THREATS GenAI assistants can augment XDR solutions that leverage real-time data analysis to identify emerging threats, by automatically summarizing key security alerts relevant to their geo, industry and architecture, and generating a dynamic newsfeed to keep security teams informed of potential risks.

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• Responding to malware by providing clear remediation steps post-detection

• Automatically creating and updating policies

• Creating and running playbooks

• Instantly applying controls and detection rules

MORE USE CASES

• Why can’t John access SFDC as in Jira ticket 376?

• Is my network protected against CVE-2023-42793?

• Are all our endpoints protected with our anti-ransomware?

• How can I protect every mobile device of our new Texas employees?

• How do I add a rule that blocks access to an application?

• How many connections were dropped per gateway?

• Which gateways are configured with threat prevention?

• Are there any rules in the policy that have logging disabled?

SAMPLE PROMPTS

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CONCLUSION As the threat landscape grows more complex and cyber criminals become increasingly sophisticated, with security roles harder to fill, GenAI-powered assistants offer a transformative solution.

Their ability to process vast amounts of data and provide real-time, contextual guidance through natural, chat-based interactions enables security professionals to be proactive and agile in containing threats with greater speed and efficiency.

The result is enhanced operations, smarter outcomes, reduced costs, and an elevated security posture.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leading AI-powered, cloud-delivered cyber security platform provider protecting over 100,000 organizations worldwide. Check Point leverages the power of AI everywhere to enhance cyber security efficiency and accuracy through its Infinity Platform, with industry-leading catch rates enabling proactive threat anticipation and smarter, faster response times. The comprehensive platform includes cloud-delivered technologies consisting of Check Point Harmony to secure the workspace, Check Point CloudGuard to secure the cloud, Check Point Quantum to secure the network, and Check Point Infinity Platform Services for collaborative security operations and services.

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