Security experts see threat from AI-armed hackers

'Africa has the largest potential for new cyber attacks' With Artificial Intelligence becoming all pervasive, IT security experts feel cyber criminals too will catch up with AI tools in 2018. Forecasting a raise in AI-based attacks, they feel cyber criminals will take to machine-learning solutions to spoof human behaviours. The only way to ward off these newer threats is to strengthen the arsenal by deploying AI tools to get better of the hackers. "Security analysts look at an ocean of events gathered from log files to identify threats, and determine which events warrant further investigation. A dearth of skilled analysts, combined with an overwhelming array of structured and unstructured data makes it difficult to put security events in context," said Kartik Shahani, Integrated Security Leader, IBM India and South Asia.