Bernard Montel is CTO and in charge of security strategy for the Europe, Middle East, Africa region at Tenable, the vulnerability scanning specialist. He talks to us about Tenable’s recent moves into industry and IOT, and into identity management, in order to offer its customers a 360° service, as well as about both the positive and negative consequences of the emergence of generative AI on system security. You studied AI long before the advent of generative AI. Can you tell us more about it? I studied in Marseille in a faculty specializing in AI. At that time, we were mainly studying machine learning, decision networks and programming. AI started long before ChatGPT! In the early days, it was all about statistical analysis for prediction and projection. What’s changed today? The only thing that has changed today is computing power, and algorithms. This has brought applications: when I left school, we had all the AI theory, but not the computing power or the applications. Of course, we were all stunned when Deep Blue beat Kasparov, showing that algorithmic paths and decision trees had potential… But we didn’t have any business applications. The only real application at the time was gaming. If it’s just a matter of scaling up, why does AI scare some people so much? In my opinion, we’re afraid of speed, of the horse that’s going to go too fast and…
