Cyber Insecurity and the Role of Artifical Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have been used extensively for understanding how systems and humans interact. Such techniques can be applied in the context of cyber security to enable a better understanding of how human beings interact with cyber systems. Resilience in cyber security systems can be augmented using these techniques, including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Game theory. AI does provide us with the tools that enable greater cyber threat intelligence, as we try to stay one step ahead of the criminals. However, AI itself poses a number of challenges not least around the ethical question of using "human-like" machines.