SECURE& | “4,000 Malware Families Soon 15,000” with Danny Quist | S5 Ep13

AI has made malware easier to build, cheaper to build, and much faster to change. 🤖 But is it actually making malware better? On the latest Secure & Scale Podcast, Jack Brandwood sits down with Danny Quist, Chief Technology Officer at PolySwarm and a malware reverse engineer with 20 years of experience, to unpack what AI means for the threat landscape. 🎙️ The bigger problem isn't necessarily better malware. It's more malware. With around 4,000 active malware families today, AI could make developing and maintaining new variants dramatically cheaper. That puts traditional signature-based detection under serious pressure. ⚠️ Inside the conversation: • Why AI has democratised malware development • How behavioural detection is changing the game • Why defenders need to think about malware at scale • How AI could handle the first layer of malware analysis • Why humans will still matter in cybersecurity • Which security roles could become more valuable One of the biggest takeaways: “The human in the loop is always gonna be there.” AI can scale what we already know. When something genuinely new happens, human judgement still matters. If you're working in cybersecurity, threat detection or security leadership, this is one worth watching. 🎧 Watch the full episode now -    • SECURE& | “4,000 Malware Families Soon 15,...   🔗 Danny's LinkedIn:   / dannyquist   🏢 PolySwarm:   / polyswarm   👤 Jack Brandwood: https://lnkd.in/dFMyDUEN 🎵 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eij7j2m ▶️ YouTube: https://lnkd.in/evEFhtb2