The Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity

It's often been observed that technological advancement is a double-edged sword – and this is especially true in the realm of cybersecurity. Attackers have been known to use automation technology to stage and sustain their strikes – while those same machine learning algorithms and real-time response mechanisms can help enterprises that suffer an assault to speed up their efforts at remediation. However, this can only happen if these automated and learning technologies are actually being deployed by enterprise users. With recent security research suggesting that a typical business organization takes an average of 146 days to fix critical software or system vulnerabilities, the penetration of such technology clearly hasn't reached acceptable levels, yet. Nevertheless, there's an increasing level of buzz over machine learning, adaptive technologies, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – and the roles they can and should play in improving enterprise cybersecurity.