AI and cybersecurity professionals working towards enhancing security posture.
The advancements in Artificial Intelligence have enabled cybersecurity professionals to enhance their threat detection. It is evident that the threat landscape keeps on evolving over and over again and new viruses and malware are being generated. Traditional methods often rely on known signatures of malware and predefined rules. These methods have a limited capacity to detect any new anomalies. Hence with the involvement of AI and machine learning algorithms, cybersecurity professionals can analyse vast amounts of data to identify new anomalies that may indicate a cyber threat.
AI along with machine learning models can be trained to recognize normal behavior within a network. Once trained these models can detect deviations from the normal mechanisms, this could be further used to flag any potential threats to the network. Let us consider an example where AI when trained appropriately could detect unusual login attempts, irregular data transfers, or even strange patterns of user behaviors which could eventually lead us to indicate that there is a compromised account.
The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proven to produce AI-driven incident response systems which have helped many organizations in situations and states of calamity. AI-driven incident response plans can help in taking predefined actions when a threat is detected. For instance, when an AI-driven incident response system finds out that there is malware on a device it could automatically isolate the device from the network to prevent the spread of the infection. Moreover, it could also block malicious IP addresses and quarantine suspicious files.
The speed of AI systems in detecting and responding to threats is unmatched. This plays a crucial part as it reduces the response time towards a threat. This eventually gives the organization or the cyber security professional an upper hand in containing the anomaly.
In conclusion, these are a few points and benefits of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) in association with machine learning when leveraged appropriately could eventually act as one of the best support systems for the cyber security professionals to safeguard their systems and help enhance the cybersecurity posture of the organization.
