"On Monday, Amazon will publish details for the first time of an internal system known as Autonomous Threat Analysis (ATA), which the company has been using to help its security teams proactively identify weaknesses in its platforms, perform variant analysis to quickly search for other, similar flaws, and then develop remediations and detection capabilities to plug holes before attackers find them."
"Limited coverage means you can't get through all of the software or you can't get to all of the applications because you just don't have enough humans. And then it's great to do an analysis of a set of software, but if you don't keep the detection systems themselves up to date with the changes in the threat landscape, you're missing half of the picture."
Generative AI accelerates software development while increasing attackers' ability to execute financially motivated and state-backed hacks, producing more code and pressure for security teams. Amazon developed Autonomous Threat Analysis (ATA) to proactively identify platform weaknesses, perform variant analysis to find similar flaws, and create remediations and detection capabilities before attackers exploit them. ATA emerged from a company hackathon in August 2024 and has become a crucial tool. ATA uses multiple specialized AI agents competing in two teams to investigate attack techniques and propose security controls for human review. ATA addresses limited security testing coverage and the need to keep detection systems current.
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