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April 30, 2022 03:34 pm

Can Elon Musk Spur Cybersecurity Innovation At Twitter?

"Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal," Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday to his 89 million followers, "so no one can spy on or hack your messages." And on Monday, Musk also announced hopes to "authenticate all humans." But now Security Week is wondering if Musk's acquisition of Twitter will ultimately mean not just better security at Twitter but also innovation for the entire cybersecurity industry:Twitter has struggled with consistent security leadership, hiring and firing multiple CISOs even as nation-state adversaries target Twitter's massive user base with computer-generated disinformation campaigns...."Even if you don't like the guy, you have to root for Twitter to beat the bots," said one prominent CISO interviewed by SecurityWeek on Tuesday. "I think we will all benefit from any security features they [Twitter] can create." Jamie Moles, a senior technical manager at ExtraHop, said the bot-elimination mission could have spinoff benefits for the entire industry. "While this seems like a Sisyphean task, if he's successful, the methods used by Twitter to eliminate bots from the platform may generate new techniques that improve the detection and identification of spam emails, spam posts, and other malicious intrusion attempts," Moles said. If Musk and his team can train AI to be more effective in combating this, it may well be a boon to security practitioners everywhere," Moles added. "Identity is one area I expect to see movement. In addition to just detecting bots and spam better, I think we will see Twitter do a better job around verifying humans. There are a lot of things to fix there," said one CISO who requested anonymity because his company does security-related business with Twitter. Industry watchers also expect to see the company improve the multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption numbers among its massive user base.... If Twitter can build a reliably secure platform with a new approach to distinguishing between human and bot traffic and fresh flavors of MFA and encryption, this could be a big win for the entire industry and users around the world. Thanks to Slashdot reader wiredmikey for sharing the story

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