SlashNext’s Generative AI to Prevent Phishing Attacks

SlashNext is looking to recruit more partners to provide its platform using generative AI to prevent phishing attacks.

SlashNext recently released its Generative HumanAI solution that uses generative AI to defend against advanced business email compromise (BEC), supply chain attacks, executive impersonation and financial fraud. This new solution joins SlashNext’s existing HumanAI capabilities, which mimic human threat researchers by combining natural language processing (NLP), computer vision and ML with relationship graphs and contextualization to thwart sophisticated multichannel messaging attacks.

Generative HumanAI anticipates vast numbers of potential AI-generated BEC threats by using AI data augmentation and cloning technologies to assess a core threat and then spawn thousands of other versions of that same core threat, which enables the system to train itself on possible variations.

“So we have two versions of our product,” said Barry Ruditsky, SlashNext‘s senior vice president of business development, partnerships, channels and alliances. “We have a business version, which basically when we prevent an attack, we report all that telemetry back to a cloud administration project. So companies that really are using managed BYOD or supervised BYOD, they’re under control of the company. They love that product because whenever we stop something, we basically report back. With BYOD, the users are a little bit more skeptical about having their company know or Big Brother know how they’re using their phones. So we came out with a personal edition of our product, which does not report anything back to the enterprise. So for users that want to have that level of protection, but not report back, we can do that.

“We’re also seeing a blend between the fully managed device versus BYOD, where companies are starting to tell their employees, ‘Listen, you want hybrid work, you want to work from all your own devices, there’s got to be something we need to put on your phone, on your devices to protect the company.’ So we’re living in both worlds right now.”

Older designed products don’t prevent the AI-driven attacks that are now coming across in email, he said.

“From a channel perspective, are you going to continue to sell the old stuff and maintain the old stuff, or are you going to help your customers move to the next generation of technology that’s designed and architected to block or prevent these types of attacks from occurring?” Ruditsky said. “We’re looking to build businesses with partners who want to get that next level of emerging technology and we want to build a business with them. They will act as trusted advisors for their customers, and they could introduce this next type of technology to them. So in the United States at this point, we’re very focused on finding partners that are providing that level of trusted service to their customers.”

SlashNext’s generative AI technology is going to continue to evolve, he said.

“We’re going to be leveraging more and more generative AI to help continue to more rapidly build the models for the ML classifiers to spot these types of attacks and prevent them,” Ruditsky said. “We really feel like we’re first in the market with this capability. So we’re looking for partners that are really interested not just in the technology, but really providing the platform and the solution to protect those users from human compromise.”