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Automated data correlation

Automated data correlation

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Automated data correlation

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Attackers sit on mountains of raw information. Breach repositories hold billions of usernames and passwords. Underground forums post corporate org charts, and open-source intelligence reveals everything from cloud service footprints to employee hobbies. Turning that chaos into a coherent attack plan once required weeks of manual triage or custom scripts that broke whenever a website changed. The faster security teams patch and rotate secrets, the more pressure adversaries feel to analyze data quickly and strike before their window of opportunity closes. Generative AI gives threat actors a shortcut. With a single prompt, they can perform automated data correlation, feeding credential dumps, social media posts, and purchase histories into an LLM that clusters accounts, links personal details to corporate roles, and highlights the outliers that are worth targeting. AI can then map relationships between entities, making it trivial to spot which compromised e-mail also unlocks a privileged…

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