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How Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI technology
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Block is using AI systems including OpenAI Daybreak to compress the time to fix vulnerabilities, freeing its security team to focus on strategic work.
Key facts
- Block’s security team has seen a 50% boost to triage throughput, a 50% increase in intelligence gathering and investigations, and an entirely new autonomous hunting capability
- At Block, the company behind Square, Cash App, and Afterpay, the security team leverages the OpenAI Defense Factory: where AI handles vulnerability discovery, detection, and response at a scale
- What it’s centered on is having a new teammate that you can scale with,” James Nettesheim, Chief Information Security Officer, says
- In recent red team exercises, the time from submitting a high-level vulnerability to an automated proposed patch was 18 minutes
Summary
Hour to replay a proposed detection change against seven months of telemetry. At Block, the company behind Square, Cash App, and Afterpay, the security team leverages the OpenAI Defense Factory: where AI handles vulnerability discovery, detection, and response at a scale that no human team could keep up with. Block’s security team has been focused on responsibly adopting AI across workflows, whether that’s code generation or security operations. Projects like reviewing a software bug or parsing a log would take days or weeks to complete.