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Google Mandiant's Jamie Collier talks about the biggest cloud security challenges
Akshaya Asokan (@asokan_akshaya) •
January 10, 2025
The rapid development of artificial intelligence adds complexity to existing cloud attack vectors. Meanwhile, AI toolkits are providing security companies and researchers with new capabilities to mitigate advanced threats.
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In order to combat AI threats in 2025, security organizations are set to enter the second phase of AI innovation in security by deploying semi-autonomous operations such as analyzing alerts and creating lists of high-priority items, said Jamie Collier, chief threat intelligence expert. and risk treatment. Consultant at Mandiant.
“Every vendor is going to talk about the risks of AI, so there's a lot of hype and speculation, and we have to be really careful,” Collier said. “But what we can say is that AI will play a role in increasing workflows especially around phishing and in fraud-safe use cases.”
In this video interview with Information Security Media Group, Collier also discusses:
Nation-state threats to cloud infrastructure; The risks to hybrid cloud environments from compromised identities and how hackers can use them to compromise cloud infrastructure; Cloud security vulnerabilities in 2025 and what organizations must do differently to secure their cloud environments.
At Mandiant, Collier focuses on helping organizations in the EMEA region identify threat environments and build threat intelligence capabilities. He previously served as the Cyber Threat Intelligence Team Leader at Digital Shadows. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute.
