On 26 June, GMV participated in the Menéndez Pelayo International Universitysummer course entitled “Artificial Intelligence: Current and Future Challenges”, led by the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. Pablo González, head of Big Data and AI Architecture at GMV’s Secure e-Solutions, took part in the panel discussion on cybersecurity and AI, coordinated by the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE).

The expert presented the initiatives that GMV is working on with INCIBE as part of the strategic initiative for innovative public procurement. These include the Luis Valle program, which consists of two projects. The first revolves around self-sovereign identity, while the second aims to create a security operations center (SOC) for the space industry, develop projects for the creation of SOCs in sectors such as industry and transportation, and develop quantum technology such as quantum key distribution.

The self-sovereign identity solution, he explained, involves the development of a digital identity solution using identity-based cryptography technology under the self-sovereign identity paradigm. GMV’s solution offers improvements over those currently being developed, which typically use blockchain technology. With this project, GMV aims to “strengthen its leadership in federated solutions, [which is] very much in line with the objective of improving and advancing the protection of privacy and security in these distributed environments that we will encounter as we implement data spaces in the new paradigm of the European data economy.”

The panel discussed the opportunities offered by AI, which is currently “used for alert monitoring and detection.” However, “this technology has great potential for incident response, attribution, penetration testing, and more.” At the same time, it should not be forgotten that this technology is also “an asset to be protected.” And currently “there is no clear taxonomy of the types of attacks on AI, as it is evolving too quickly, especially since ChatGPT.” 

AI’s ability to process large amounts of data from multiple sources as quickly as possible offers the opportunity to work with “more volume, variety and velocity (many will remember these three Vs from the beginning of the last decade when AI made its resurgence).” Due to the unstoppable digitalization of our society, the increasing complexity of attacks, and the improvement of monitoring tools, automation and AI have proven to be particularly good at scaling up the process in tasks such as anomaly detection, alert prioritization, and event correlation.”

With regard to the recently approved European AI regulations, the GMV expert acknowledged that “although European and Spanish legislation guarantees the rights of citizens so that AI is used responsibly, complying with it may mean an increase in project costs.” However, it is also “an opportunity for companies, as new services can be offered to customers.”