How Generative AI Is Changing Security Research

ChatGPT is being used for both good and bad purposes. Asking it the right questions will decide the battle.

Generative AI is not only being used by threat actors to design new attacks. Tenable Research is experimenting with the use of large language models to reduce complexity and achieve efficiency in the following areas in order to accelerate research capabilities:

• Reverse engineering
• Debugging code
• Improving web app security
• Increasing visibility into cloud-based tools

Written for security research practitioners, this report provides an insider glimpse into how Tenable is leveraging generative AI for good, and making new tools available to the wider research community.