AI in Cybersecurity: 2020 Predictions

Critical attacks and massive breaches escalated dramatically in 2019 and it is predicted that by the year 2020, costs related to damage caused by cybersecurity breaches may reach $5 trillion. As attacks increase cybersecurity teams are overworked, understaffed, and are grasping for solutions to solve an increasing amount of problems. The current state of AI is begging for a number of problems to be solved in order to continue effectively protecting users from malicious actors. Due to an extreme shortage of cybersecurity professionals, many companies are turning to Artificial Intelligence as a sort of panacea to better defend their networks and make up for a lack of personnel. Another layer of complexity gets added when we consider the false positive or negative problem most security companies have because they are either setting their thresholds too high or too low.