Artificial Intelligence Is a Threat to Cybersecurity. It's Also a Solution.

To enhance existing cybersecurity systems and practices, organizations can apply AI at three levels. For some time, researchers have focused on AI's potential to stop cyberintruders. In 2014, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced its first DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, a competition in which professional hackers and information security researchers develop automated systems that can figure out security flaws and develop and deploy solutions in real time. While it is still early days, the future of cybersecurity will likely benefit from more AI-enabled prevention and protection systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to harden defenses. These systems will also likely allow humans to interact flexibly with algorithmic decision making.