Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Cybersecurity

StationX calls Artificial Intelligence (AI) a game-changing technology for the security industry, useful across multiple cybersecurity domains, and a good solution to existing problems. Attackers are adopting AI to up their game and defenders need to keep up. The article provides examples of how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing cybersecurity.

Threat detection and prevention: AI revolutionizes the behavior analysis detection cyber security technique that human operators perform. Using data processing and machine learning, it analyzes large quantities of data at scale to find anomalies or suspicious behavior that can indicate malicious activity. 

Automated incident response: Cyber security personnel contain incidents, remove lurking threats, and restore affected systems. This is a time-intensive process requiring special skills and coordinated procedures. AI can automate it by performing complex task execution, augmenting workflow, and adding vast amounts of investigation information using its access to data stores. This saves time and money during security incidents.

Reverse engineering malware: Attackers use malware to exploit vulnerabilities. To defend against it, security professionals need to analyze and reverse engineer. AI can greatly improve the efficiency of that process by analyzing large volumes of malware samples, identifying patterns, and producing insights that defenders can use to bolster security. Reverse engineering at scale can significantly improve accuracy and augment the ability to uncover new threats.

Penetration testing and ethical hacking: Incorporating AI into penetration testing allows more systems to be tested. It finds out if a vulnerability is exploitable faster, and supplies the knowledge required when cyber professionals test systems or applications they aren’t familiar with.