Why AI Confidence Is Not Validation
Summary: SANS created two new AI frameworks this year - the Digital Forensics & AI Investigations Framework, mapped to SWGDE standards, and the Incident Response & AI Investigations Framework, mapped to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 - both holding that the human examiner remains the final authority at every phase. The article argues AI tools are growing more confident in their output faster than practitioners can verify it, and that an unverified finding can end up in a forensic report, a deposition, or in court.
What you should know: An investigator gets one opportunity at a sound acquisition, and a flawed one forecloses analysis entirely - which is why the frameworks hold that AI should never take an action that can't be undone, while hash verification can be automated safely and decisions like pulling cloud data or deploying tools to capture lateral movement cannot.
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