The transformative impact of GenAI for software development and its implications for cybersecurity

This keynote explores the transformative impact of GenAI on software development and its subsequent implications for cybersecurity. With GenAI, developers are shifting from traditional code reuse to generating new code snippets by prompting GenAI, leading to a significant change in software development dynamics. This advancement introduces new cybersecurity challenges as AI-generated code from LLMs trained on vulnerable OSS leads to vulnerable generated code. To make matters worse, developers, who should be the “person-in-the-middle”, tend to trust GenAI created code more than human created code. This keynote will delve into real-world data from multiple academic studies, examining how GenAI is reshaping software security landscapes, the associated risks, and potential solutions to mitigate these emerging challenges.