ACSAC / WAITI · Event date December 7, 2026

ACSAC WAITI 2026: AI for Cyber Threat Intelligence

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December 7, 2026
Scheduled event

WAITI is a December 7 ACSAC workshop in Los Angeles on applying AI to cyber threat intelligence. Its scope includes extracting and organizing threat information with NLP and language models, analyzing malware and network behavior, and intelligence for IoT environments. It brings together research on AI methods and operational threat-intelligence needs.

My takeaway: Examine extraction accuracy, source provenance, false positives, and the cost of analyst review. Treat generated intelligence as a claim to verify, and compare proposed methods against a realistic non-agentic or manual baseline.
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