The race between attackers and defenders in IT security has always been shaped by technological progress – but the development of artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the rules of the game. AI dramatically lowers the barriers to entry for cybercriminals and enables deceptively real phishing emails, deepfakes of voices and videos, and highly automated attacks. This presents companies and public authorities with completely new challenges in adapting their defense strategies to these threats.

In this practice-oriented workshop from Bitkom Academy and Bitkom Consult, you will learn how attackers are already using AI to circumvent traditional protection mechanisms. The focus is on specific forms of attack – from AI-supported phishing campaigns and deepfake- ...