Artificial intelligence is an important cybersecurity tool, but it's no silver bullet

The recent Capgemini Research Institute report, Reinventing cybersecurity with artificial intelligence, found companies are facing ever-increasing threats and attacks. Forty-two percent of executives surveyed reported an increase in incidents through time-sensitive applications and 43% noted an increase in machine-speed attacks. Nearly one in four executives surveyed believe they will not be able to successfully investigate all identified incidents, which is concerning because cyber-analysts need to be able to track anomalies, incidents, and breaches that occur impacting an organization's brand as well as its business operations. The promises of AI and machine learning make it easy to think that they are a quick fix to this escalating threat landscape. Typically, though, companies trying to solve cybersecurity issues themselves tend to be flooded with information and alert overloads.