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Why White Hat Hackers Are Needed Even in the Age of AI

Why White Hat Hackers Are Needed Even in the Age of AI

Why White Hat Hackers Are Needed Even in the Age of AI

Kim In-soon

Kim In-soon

Feb 27, 2025

Feb 27, 2025

Feb 27, 2025

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AI transforming cybersecurity, what is the role of human experts?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is establishing itself as an essential tool in the field of cybersecurity for threat detection. It analyzes large volumes of data in real-time and automates repetitive tasks, improving the efficiency and speed of threat detection. 

With the rise of AI, there are concerns that the creativity and problem-solving abilities of security experts may decline. 

Advancements in AI have significantly changed the way cyber threats are detected. 

Companies are adopting AI to pursue workflow automation. AI performs repetitive and simple tasks (e.g., log monitoring, false-positive classification) that security personnel would otherwise handle. This allows security analysts to focus on more critical issues.

AI is highly effective at analyzing vast amounts of network traffic and system logs much faster than humans, identifying anomalies or hidden attack patterns. It is more likely to detect new types of malware or complex attacks at an early stage. Moreover, generative AI even carries out some security tasks that require creativity. 

What roles do AI and human security experts each play?

With the introduction of AI, the role of human security experts in detecting cyber threats is also evolving. 

AI excels at processing vast amounts of data in a short time and identifying known patterns.  

In comparison, human security experts are strong in understanding the context of situations and creatively responding to unprecedented attacks. 

AI plays the role of early warning by filtering suspicious signs from numerous security events and quickly detecting known threats. 

Human security experts identify subtle anomalies that AI may not catch or establish intuitive judgments and response strategies for new threats like zero-day attacks. Ultimately, in the field, AI and humans are emphasized not as competitors but as partners, engaging in balanced collaboration that utilizes each of their strengths. 

Human Experts' Strategy to Coexist with AI

In the AI era, human security experts need several strategies to maintain and enhance their value and role.  

Firstly, a balanced collaboration between AI and humans must be established. Assign large-scale data processing and repetitive tasks to AI, while human experts should be responsible for final judgments and creative decision-making.

This way, the speed and scale advantages of AI can be utilized while maintaining human insight and control

Security experts should develop soft skills such as creative thinking, critical analysis, and communication that AI cannot replace through continuous learning.

While AI handles technical tasks, humans should enhance their ability to comprehensively interpret complex risks, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and develop strategies. 

At the organizational level, a culture that guards against blind reliance on AI and encourages creativity must be fostered. The results provided by AI should be periodically verified and adjusted. It's essential to monitor that AI does not lead the organization’s security efforts in the wrong direction. 

Even when integrating AI within the organization, it is important to actively discover and support talents who offer original ideas. Employees should be encouraged not only to use AI tools but also to develop new solutions based on them.

Offensive Security: The Importance of Creativity

White hat hackers discover vulnerabilities that existing security systems have overlooked and explore new hacking techniques that attackers might use. They apply a completely different mindset from traditional methods to study unpredictable attack methods

This process requires more than simple pattern recognition; it demands non-conventional thinking, reverse thinking, and intuitive judgment

White hat hackers find unpredictable attack techniques. After analyzing the attack patterns that existing security systems defend against, they approach entirely new vectors (e.g., hardware firmware vulnerabilities, social engineering using human psychology), which is an area that cannot be generated by simple data learning alone.

AI predicts patterns based on past data, but when it comes to bypassing security in unprecedented ways in a completely new environment, human creative thinking is needed.

AI is proficient at detecting individual vulnerabilities, but complex attack vectors combining various technologies to attack systems in unexpected ways require the creativity of human hackers.

AI vs. White Hat

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AI can learn based on existing patterns to detect vulnerabilities and automate some attacks, but entirely new attack methods, hacking using human psychology, and discovering vulnerabilities in unpredictable systems are creative areas where human hackers are essential. 

Even as AI advances, the creativity and problem-solving abilities of white-hat hackers will remain crucial competitive edges, and security technology is expected to advance through collaboration with AI. 

Kim In-soon

Kim In-soon

Start-up College Adjunct Professor at Gachon University
Start-up College Adjunct Professor at Gachon University

Former desk member of the Electronic Newspaper ICT Convergence Department, active as a cyber security journalist and communication expert for 20 years.

Former desk member of the Electronic Newspaper ICT Convergence Department, active as a cyber security journalist and communication expert for 20 years.

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