Does AI materially impact cybersecurity strategies?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been deployed across multiple industries to increase security, improve productivity or enhance user experiences. AI arrived in the cybersecurity space claiming to cyber leaders that it was the solution to detecting and stopping advanced attacks. According to a global survey released in September 2021, just under half of executives think artificial intelligence is the best tool to counter nation-state cyberattacks. It's true that AI technologies can continually learn and improve, generalizing observations from past attacks to discover new malicious behaviors. However, while AI is lathered across almost every marketing campaign involved in promoting cybersecurity products, the promise of AI is generally hollow until the models can meet or exceed human levels of intelligence.