Raj Koo, CTO of DTEX Systems, discusses how their enterprise-grade generative AI platform detects and disarms insider threats and enables them to stay ahead of evolving risks.

Topics Include:

• Raj Koo, CTO of DTEX Systems, joins from Adelaide to discuss insider threat detection
• DTEX evolved from Adelaide startup to Bay Area headquarters, serving Fortune 500 companies
• Company specializes in understanding human behavior and intention behind insider threats
• Market shifting beyond cyber indicators to focus on behavioral analysis and detection
• Recent case: US citizen sold identity to North Korean DPRK IT workers
• Foreign entities used stolen credentials to infiltrate American companies undetected
• DTEX's behavioral detection systems helped identify this sophisticated identity theft operation
• Generative AI becomes double-edged sword - used by both threat actors and defenders
• Bad actors use AI for fake resumes and deepfake interviews
• DTEX uses traditional machine learning for risk modeling, GenAI for analyst interpretation
• Goal is empowering security analysts to work faster, not replacing human expertise
• AWS GenAI Innovation Center helped develop guardrails and usage boundaries for enterprise
• Challenge: enterprises must follow rules while hackers operate without ethical constraints
• DTEX gains advantage through proprietary datasets unavailable to public AI models
• AWS Bedrock partnership enables private, co-located language models for data security
• Private preview launched February 2024 with AWS Innovation Center acceleration support
• Software leaders should prioritize privacy-by-design from day one of GenAI adoption
• Future threat: information sharing shifts from files to AI-powered data queries
• Monitoring who asks what questions of AI systems becomes critical security concern
• DTEX contributes to OpenSearch development while building vector databases for analysis

Participants:

• Rajan Koo – Chief Technology Officer, DTEX Systems

Further Links:

• DTEX Systems Website
• DTEX Systems AWS Marketplace

See how Amazon Web Services gives you the freedom to migrate, innovate, and scale your software company at https://aws.amazon.com/isv/