IBM, AI And The Battle For Cybersecurity

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a bigger part of the IT landscape, cybersecurity is becoming an AI battlefield. The latest and most aggressive attacks in cybersecurity are now leveraging AI to evade traditional security defenses and to counter adversarial responses. The cat and mouse game between attacker and defender is moving to a different level where AI is augmenting the human element. The future of cybersecurity will likely be AI versus AI. Attackers can use AI in cybersecurity attacks to evade detection (evasive), hide in many locations without detection (pervasive) and automatically adapt to counter measures (adaptive).IBM Research is using its expertise to help build the tools to defend against attacks of all kinds and protect data privacy. As enterprises experiment with AI services, machine learning models that power AI have become so important that the models themselves are the target of intrusion attacks.