cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/28915273
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That marketing may have outstripped reality. Early reports from Mythos preview users including AWS and Mozilla indicate that while the model is very good and very fast at finding vulnerabilities, and requires less hands-on guidance from security engineers - making it a welcome time-saver for the human teams - it has yet to eclipse human security researchers.
“So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t,” Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley said, after revealing that Mythos found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150. Then he added: “We also haven’t seen any bugs that couldn’t have been found by an elite human researcher.” In other words, it’s like adding an automated security researcher to your team. Not a zero-day machine that’s too dangerous for the world.
People for some reason assume that you can pay $20 for a bot and it will do something. You need a person with a lot of experience to get something useful from this bot, and every time we actually measure, the results that your experienced person will be quicker and better not using it at all, and doing the same work themselves.
The corporate solution is to hire a not experienced person to wrangle the bots, but that’s a sure way to introduce bugs, not fix them.