Artificial intelligence is within everyone's reach, once again, one might say. Service providers of all kinds are integrating the appropriate technologies into their security solutions. But how much are cyber criminals and how far are they, especially when it comes to phishing? Cyber criminals have been using all technical means for years to automate their actions as much as possible, including avoiding being followed by law enforcement. One of the most effective and easiest way to infect an IT system is phishing email.

Poisoning an AI system can be alarmingly easy. Attackers can manipulate the data sets used to train AI, making subtle changes to parameters or crafting scenarios that are carefully designed to avoid raising suspicion while gradually steering AI in the desired direction.

Steve Durbin is Managing Director, Information Security Forum. He is a frequent speaker on the Board's role in cybersecurity and technology. As artificial intelligence (AI) breaks into the mainstream, there is a great deal of misinformation and confusion about what it's capable of and the potential risks it poses. Our culture is rich with dystopian visions of human ruin at the feet of all-knowing machines. But many people also appreciate the potential good AI might do for us through the improvements and insights it could bring.

Three cybersecurity experts explained how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to evade cybersecurity defenses and make breaches faster and more efficient during a NCSA and Nasdaq cybersecurity summit. Kevin Coleman, the executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance, hosted the conversation as part of Usable Security: Effecting and Measuring Change in Human Behavior on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Elham Tabassi, chief of staff information technology laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, was one of the panelists in the "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" session.text "Attackers can use AI to evade detections, to hide where they can't be found, and automatically adapt to counter measures," Tabassi said. Tim Bandos, chief information security officer at Digital Guardian, said that cybersecurity will always need human minds to build strong defenses and stop attacks.