The Age of AI Is Upon Us The current pace of technological change beggars’ belief. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), released to the world a mere two years ago, promises to eliminate much of the tedium of the digital world. Software engineers around the world are already using it to speed up their development times (making them more productive) thereby increasing feature velocity. Software code assistants are just the first step, and since everyone is using them, the benefit is no longer differentiating; code copilots are table stakes. The real question is can a development organization truly create better, differentiated software and services by infusing GenAI knowledge throughout R &D? That was the premise of Imperva’s 2024 Hackathon, which completed in November. Imperva, a long-time application security specialist vendor, runs a themed hackathon every year. This year we chose GenAI as our overall focus and organized our teams around the following goals: Applying AI for better cybersecurity outcomes (AI for Cyber) Protecting customer AI (Cyber for AI) Leveraging AI for internal processes. Imperva has development offices around the world, with main campuses in Israel, India and North America. Over 250 R&D employees, from six different countries, participated. All received over 35 hours of training with a cloud provider’s AI model training platform as one of the first steps to the hackathon program. The third-party trainers, by the way, remarked that this was…Read More
References
Back to Main