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AI and Cybersecurity: A 25+ Year Veteran's Perspective on the Future of Digital Defense

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Cybersecurity is a topic that reverberates throughout every sector of business. According to a recent report by Accenture, cyberattacks could cost businesses over $5.2 trillion in the form of lost revenue and additional expenses. The entry of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought with it some solutions, but also newer threats that did not exist a while back. In this article, we will look at the bittersweet relationship between AI and cybersecurity and what can be done about it. Artificial intelligence is the development and theory of computer systems that enable them to handle tasks that usually require human intelligence.



AI and Cybersecurity: Making Sense of the Confusion

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The purpose of artificial intelligence (AI) is to create intelligent machines. It is used in multiple domains, including finance, manufacturing, logistics, retail, social media, healthcare, and increasingly, cybersecurity. The current discourse about AI and cybersecurity often confuses the different perspectives, as if the intersection of disciplines is monolithic and one-dimensional. Therefore, we need a common language for discussing the various and disparate intersections of AI and cybersecurity that clarifies the differences. I see three parts to the discussion: AI in the hands of defenders, AI in the hands of attackers, and adversarial AI.


Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity

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A new CEPS Task Force report proposes concrete policy measures and recommendations to help ease the adoption of AI in cybersecurity and address the security and reliability of AI systems. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gradually being integrated into the fabric of business and widely deployed across specific applications use cases. Not all sectors are equally advanced, however: the information technology and telecommunications sector are the most advanced in terms of AI adoption, with the automotive falling just behind. According to a recent global survey that polled more than 4,500 technology decision-makers across different sectors, 45% of large companies and 29% of SMEs said they had adopted AI. In the cybersecurity sector, AI will become increasingly indispensable to manage cyber threats: indeed, the market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 23.6% from 2020 to 2027 and to reach $46.3 billion by 2027. At the same time, the adoption of AI is not without risks in itself: more than 60% of companies adopting AI recognise cybersecurity risks generated by AI as the most relevant ones.


Top 10 predictions of how AI is going to improve cybersecurity In 2021

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There is no denying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the future of cybersecurity. In other words, the future of cybersecurity lies in the hands of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Companies or medium-sized corporations can counter various cyber threats using the advanced concepts of AI. If you want to know about different AI predictions that will positively influence cybersecurity in 2021 and in the future, read this post in detail. According to a recent research conducted by Trend Micro, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will replace the need for human beings by the end of 2030.


AI and Cybersecurity: What's the deal

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Artificial intelligence is probably the future of security software regarding how many processes it can improve and how little resources it requires. Positively, it will be integrated into the advanced antivirus programs and take on more and more features. Although not all the antiviruses have AI integrated, it is still essential to protect personal gear and information from intruders and hacker attacks. If you need to find a porter antivirus, read professional and common user reviews. This way, you'll be able to see how good is AVG antivirus, Avast, or any other one, before AI can handle all the security processes. So, for starters, artificial intelligence can be classified into two types.


What enterprise CISOs need to know about AI and cybersecurity

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Modern day enterprise security is like guarding a fortress that is being attacked on all fronts, from digital infrastructure to applications to network endpoints. That complexity is why AI technologies such as deep learning and machine learning have emerged as game-changing defensive weapons in the enterprise's arsenal over the past three years. There is no other technology that can keep up. It has the ability to rapidly analyze billions of data points, and glean patterns to help a company act intelligently and instantaneously to neutralize many potential threats. Beginning about five years ago, investors started pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into a wave of new security startups that leverage AI, including CrowdStrike, Darktrace, Vectra AI, and Vade Secure, among others.


The persistent humanity in AI and cybersecurity

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Even as AI technology transforms some aspects of cybersecurity, the intersection of the two remains profoundly human. Although it's perhaps counterintuitive, humans are front and center in all parts of the cybersecurity triad: the bad actors who seek to do harm, the gullible soft targets, and the good actors who fight back. Even without the looming specter of AI, the cybersecurity battlefield is often opaque to average users and the technologically savvy alike. Adding a layer of AI, which comprises numerous technologies that can also feel unexplainable to most people, may seem doubly intractable -- as well as impersonal. That's because although the cybersecurity fight is sometimes deeply personal, it's rarely waged in person.


30 companies merging AI and cybersecurity to keep us safe and sound

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By the year 2021, cybercrime losses will cost upwards of $6 trillion annually. It's no surprise, then, that the cybersecurity industry is exploding as it grows to protect the networks and systems on which companies and organizations operate and store data. Because effective information security requires smarter detection, many cybersecurity companies are upping their game by using artificial intelligence to achieve that goal. A new wave of AI-powered solutions and products keep bad actors on their toes while giving IT teams much needed relief. Here are 30 companies merging artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to make the virtual world safer.


The Growing AI/Cyber Nexus

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While the debate about artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality rages, virtual terrorists – those who operate primarily on the Dark Web – are getting smarter and thinking of new ways to benefit from both, creating methods to operate autonomously in this brave new world. Malware is being designed with adaptive, success-based learning to improve the accuracy and efficacy of cyberattacks. The coming generation of malware will be situation-aware, meaning that it will understand the environment it is in and make calculated decisions about what to do next, behaving like a human attacker: performing reconnaissance, identifying targets, choosing methods of attack, and intelligently evading detection. This next generation of malware uses code that is a precursor to AI, replacing traditional "if not this, then that" code logic with more complex decision-making trees. Autonomous malware operates much like branch prediction technology, designed to guess which branch of a decision tree a transaction will take before it is executed.