Businesses and governments around the world are experimenting with using computer technology to detect and prevent crimes in a variety of areas, from cybercrime to healthcare and law enforcement. In this article, we will examine the potential role of artificial intelligence in improving cybersecurity, as well as its advantages and disadvantages.
What Is the Role of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the Future of Cybersecurity?
The number of attacks on information systems is growing every year at double-digit rates. At the same time, attacks are becoming more sophisticated, potential targets, which now include IoT devices and smart home devices, are increasing, and the damage from attacks is increasing. “Classic” anti-virus tools are no longer able to cope with such epidemics, and solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) come to the rescue.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, systems can be trained to generate threat alerts, recognize new types of malware, and protect critical data for organizations if handled properly. For organizations trying to succeed online today, AI is the best cybersecurity option. To operate effectively and protect their organizations from cyberattacks, security professionals need significant help from intelligent machines and advanced technologies such as AI.
Despite promising achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, it is important to define what AI can and cannot do. For example, many analysts use the classification of images from video surveillance sets to detect people and vehicles, but this does not translate into an actual understanding of the scene. Visual understanding is still very challenging, and there is currently a lack of real-world data and applicable training to allow an AI-based solution to fully understand a scene. In addition, the best AI-based video analytics cannot read human behavior. Emotional differentiation, such as humor, is something that an AI-based solution cannot detect or infer.
Artificial Intelligence Is the Future of Cyber Security
Cybercriminals are using artificial intelligence (AI) to rapidly develop the sophistication of their attacks. In response, a growing number of organizations are also adopting this technology as part of their cybersecurity strategies. The question of the latest technologies and whether artificial intelligence will surpass humans in the future is quite debatable. There are many artificial intelligence (AI) experts who have openly spoken about the negative impact of AI on society and have asked researchers to study the social impact of artificial intelligence.
While we are still in the early stages of using these technologies and applying them to cyber security, this is a growing trend. Businesses that use advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and layered email protection and regularly train their employees in attack-resistant behaviors will be in the best position to avoid future attacks and recover quickly.
Artificial intelligence is the science that makes computers smarter. Sophisticated algorithms allow computers to solve problems that only humans could solve before. Thanks to artificial intelligence, you can also add to existing cyber security tools:
- Detection of cyber threats and suspicious activity using predictive analytics algorithms.
- Development of more accurate, secure, and biometric login methods.
- Conditional access security improvements.
The attack surface of an enterprise is huge, and it is getting bigger. To quantify risk, up to several hundred billion time-varying signals must be efficiently processed. The number of signals depends on the size of the company. As a result, analyzing and improving cybersecurity is no longer a human-scale task. This is why we need AI in cybersecurity.