From HAL to HALT: Thwarting Skynet's Siblings in the GenAI Coding Era
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Black Hat USA 2024 · Day 1 · Briefing
In his Black Hat USA talk, "From HAL to HALT: Thwarting Skynet's Siblings in the GenAI Coding Era," Chris Wysopal, CTO and co-founder of Veracode, addressed the profound impact of **generative AI (GenAI)** on the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and, critically, on software security. Drawing on his decades of experience—from a pioneering vulnerability researcher in the 1990s to a leader in automated application security—Wysopal highlighted a looming challenge: while GenAI promises unprecedented developer productivity gains, it simultaneously exacerbates existing software security problems by accelerating the introduction of vulnerabilities.