Protected by AI: A new era of cyber-defense

Abstract

Traditional defense mechanisms are not enough of a match against the growing complexity and scale of cyber threats. Artificial intelligence (AI)-based security solutions are the new gamechangers in cybersecurity giving organisations the power to automate threat detection, anticipate future attacks and respond to incidents instantly. AI systems can use ML, Deep Learning (DL) and, Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyze these data at-scale to recognize patterns in the network that are common for brute forces, detect potential threats or detect shifts in the priority of attacks that adversaries will introduce every day without spending all this interaction manually. This paper discusses the application of AI that redefines cybersecurity in terms of intrusion detection, malware analysis, behavior analytics and response actions. It envisions the accomplishments that AI-driven security technology can bring on broad use cases and dilemmas like adverary attacks, stakeholder privacy, transparency as well as extinction concerns before eventually concluding with some footnotes. AI is making cyber defense systems more nimble, versatile and robust, to keep organizations better protected from an ever-growing landscape of threats.