Here are 10 points of the possibilities that AI offers to optimize your cybersecurity systems.
According to company executives interviewed by MIT Technology Review, the first visible benefits of AI are improved security and better risk management. And nearly 70% of businesses find they are unable to effectively respond to cyber threats without AI-based security tools. However, the tendency to sensationalism often makes us forget how much AI tools can really contribute to security.
Here are 10 points of the possibilities that AI offers to optimize your cybersecurity systems:
1. AI, excellent anomaly detection system
Just over half of the world’s businesses use AI to detect threats. Unlike traditional signature-based security, which tends to fail when it comes to identifying zero-day attacks exploiting previously unpublished software vulnerabilities, AI-based solutions can quickly analyze large volumes of data to identify anomalous behavior and potential threats, even if they are unknown and never encountered threats.
2. Faster response through automation
AI can automate repetitive tasks such as threat analysis and incident triage. This allows cyber analysts to spend more time on important issues. Because of this, response time is reduced and the consequences of breaches and intrusions are limited.
3. Machine learning keeps getting better
AI solutions are improving and adapting to new data and attack patterns. Through this continuous learning, businesses stay ahead of the latest cyber threats and approach security with greater confidence.
4. AI enables a modular approach to security
To ensure a high return on investment, each business can start with specific AI modules tailored to its needs, such as threat prevention or incident response, and then add additional modules as those needs evolve.
5. AI can help you personalize security
Some tools are able to use contextual AI to understand user behavior, app risk, and device location. In turn, these tools enable granular deployment of security policies that evolve based on context and reduce the likelihood that high-risk activities will continue despite an often-increasing attack surface.
6. AI is able to detect hidden anomalies in data
AI-powered threat intelligence platforms are able to analyse large amounts of data from various sources and discover atypical relationships and patterns that would go unnoticed with traditional methods.
In this way, companies can better understand the threats they face, predict the behaviour of attackers, and arm their systems accordingly.
7. Your opponents use AI
Cyber criminals are now using AI-enabled tools to work faster, exploit vulnerabilities, move laterally and compromise multiple targets simultaneously. So your business should also consider using AI to block these threats.
8. Scalable access control
AI-based cyber security solutions can adapt IT access permissions based on user behavior and context. Only authorised users have access to sensitive information, which limits the risk of hackers accessing unauthorised data or logging into a computer.
9. Combine human and AI expertise
The future of cyber security is not about replacing human expertise, but about empowering it. While AI provides unprecedented speed, analytics and automation, critical thinking, experience and human intuition will remain essential to prevent and block cyber threats.
To move from an exclusively human approach to one that favors collaboration with AI tools, mindsets must evolve and see AI as a trusted partner rather than an alternative to human expertise.
10. Costs associated with cyber attacks are reduced
IBM study revealed that companies using AI and automation in their cybersecurity devices reduced breach costs by an average of $3.05 million compared to companies without these types of solutions.
When integrated with cybersecurity, AI-based solutions not only improve threat detection and response, but also help reduce costs.
With AI-based cybersecurity solutions, CISOs can significantly improve an organization’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to cyberattacks