How Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computers Could Help Fight Cybercrimes

US research firm International Data Corporation predicts that by 2020, businesses will spend over $100 billion to protect themselves from hacking, up from the estimated $74 billion budget last year. However, new technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing can reportedly help prevent cyberattacks. Artificial intelligence, for instance, could enhance threat detection, shorten defense response time, and improve ways of distinguishing real efforts from those that can be ignored, the Financial Times noted. "Before artificial intelligence, we'd have to assume that a lot of the data - say 90 percent - is fine. We only would have bandwidth to analyze this 10 percent," Daniel Driver from UK defense group's Chemring Technology Solution said. IBM is also developing its own AI security platform called Watson.