The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity

While security as a percentage of IT spend continues to grow at a robust rate, the cost of security breaches is growing even faster. Organizations are spending close to $100 billion on a dizzying array of security products. In fact, it is not uncommon for CISO organizations to have 30 to 40 security products in their environment. However, if you ask chief information security officers how they feel about their security risk, they will express concerns over being highly exposed and vulnerable. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can offer IT security professionals a way to enforce good cybersecurity practices and shrink the attack surface instead of constantly chasing after malicious activity.