Can Artificial Intelligence resolve cyberattack issues?

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Cybersecurity is a massive threat for every business today, therefore, it is very essential to protect important data from cyber-attacks, unauthorized access & malicious content. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI) for playing a crucial role in the fight against cyber crooks, rogue hackers, and aggressive nation states.

Just as algorithms replaced humans for automated stock trading, AI will be needed to keep pace with constantly morphing malware and attack vectors. According to Rick Grinnell, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, a venture firm focused on AI startups, “Even the best human brains ultimately won’t be able to keep up with this pace of changing attack strategy. Even if they could, it would be impossible to push the new defense patch or update to each endpoint, device, or network in time to prevent or stop an attack. Fast-to-react AI-based solutions will be required at multiple points in the network, from the endpoint through the various layers of public and private networks".

The limits of artificial intelligence:

AI isn’t necessarily any better at detecting malware than traditional antivirus software, because an AI system can’t look at a piece of code and know whether it’s good or bad. Machine-learning-based detection algorithms are heavily dependent on the data sets they’re exposed to, and they’re virtually unattainable solutions—there’s usually no way for humans to understand how the machine arrived at a decision.

“AI is good at purpose-built tasks—even highly sophisticated ones, like winning Jeopardy and chess. “But AI cannot apply the discretion and creativity that we humans do. The big difference between robots and humans is that we're curious. We ask really weird, non-intuitive, sometimes silly questions, and we make serendipitous discoveries that we connect to topics that you wouldn't logically connect to.

“The advantage technology provides is speed and the ability to handle large volumes of data. But I don’t think the machines can win alone, because in cybersecurity, you're ultimately trying to beat humans. The advantage technology provides is speed and the ability to handle large volumes of data", said Charles Caldwell, vice president of customer success at Logi Analytics, a maker of embedded analytics solutions.

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Nabanita Maji
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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