Infusing AI in Cybersecurity: The Times They Are AI-Changin'

This 42-minute conference talk from Black Hat explores how ING, a large European bank with over 60,000 employees, has successfully integrated AI and advanced data science techniques into their cybersecurity framework. Learn about practical implementations in critical security areas including Vulnerability Management, Secret Leakage Prevention, Identity and Access Management, and Data Leakage Prevention. Discover how the security team at ING enhanced decision quality, removed unnecessary access, reduced false positives, and optimized workloads for Security Operations Centre teams through AI-driven approaches. The presentation covers key challenges encountered, successful methodologies, and tangible improvements in defending a complex banking infrastructure. Gain insights into how coupling vulnerability data with alerts significantly reduced false positives for SOC analysts and understand the impact of these methods on Role Access Optimisation, Secret Leakage Prevention, and Data Leakage Detection capabilities. Presented by Eduardo Barbaro (Head of Security Analytics), Roberto Moratore, Ignjat Pejic, Alessandro Giordani, and Arlindo Trindade (Security Data Scientists at ING Bank), this talk provides valuable understanding of what works, what doesn't, and how AI can serve as a force multiplier in organizational cybersecurity frameworks.