{"id":355,"date":"2019-03-01T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2020-05-11T18:31:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:01:54","slug":"need-of-the-hour-artificial-intelligence-in-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/need-of-the-hour-artificial-intelligence-in-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Need of the Hour: Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"681\" height=\"118\" class=\"wp-image-432 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/ojycekam\/2019\/03\/Gauri.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"432\" data-link=\"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/need-of-the-hour-artificial-intelligence-in-cyber-security\/gauri\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/ojycekam\/2019\/03\/Gauri.png 681w, https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/ojycekam\/2019\/03\/Gauri-300x52.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Artificial Intelligence and machine learning have the\ncapability to advance security as well as data-safety solutions by processing&nbsp;analytic\ninsights.&nbsp;Cyber security companies&nbsp;are faced with&nbsp;multiple\ntransformations which&nbsp;have been well documented in the past years. Multiple\norganizations are looking forward to switching to AI for security\nreasons.&nbsp;Artificial Intelligence (AI)&nbsp;happens to be a well-known\nbuzzword&nbsp;in the present era. Now the question is:&nbsp;when&nbsp;will the\nnext revolution of tech disruption&nbsp;take place?<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>High Time: Need for Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An urgent requirement of <a href=\"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/artificial-intellegence.html\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a> has been experienced by security administrators in security driven industries. It\u2019s not just a question of why AI is needed for securing the data, in fact, it is a much needed move for thwarting malicious attackers and cyber related threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><ul><li>Cyber threats are shooting up rapidly day-by-day. The image of cybersecurity has experienced losses as hackers and attackers were required to succeed only once, whereas defenders had to guard an oversized, ever-growing attack surface 24\u00d77. Thus it\u2019s beyond the capability of humans to protect systems from such brute force attacks.<\/li><\/ul><p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><ul><li>It will take hundreds of individuals to drill and investigate all their security and information to discover modern cyber threats, and take action rapidly to prevent sabotage. However, such an investigation by hundreds of individuals is practically impossible and very expensive.<\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><ul><li>Artificial Intelligence overcomes this drawback by amalgamating \n AI and automation with individuals\u2019 skills to provide ultimate threat \n management.<\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Creating next-generation systems for threat detection and response isn&#8217;t possible for several\u00a0organizations at present. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning will facilitate in bridging this gap by providing high-level detection and response as a service, hence eliminating the complication and price of creating in-house next-generation security driven operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>AI is superior to humans, but cannot outperform them<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><ul><li>At the present time, we confront complicated attacks which create a messy mass of information to scrutinize. We currently have to investigate network traffic, application &amp; transaction information, customer access data, social media data, cloud info, information from a range of security items, dark internet data and many more:  the list is never-ending.<\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><ul><li>Advanced needs the flexibility to rapidly examine a large amount of information. AI facilitates this by applying advanced math on huge scale information needed to mitigate threats. Furthermore, these days, a single well-resourced AI system can operate advanced mathematical calculations in comparison to the entire human population.<\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Machines are highly\nadvanced and more affordable in comparison to humans when we are talking about\nmanagement of large volumes of data. This is specifically what security-driven\nenterprises require currently, particularly with the huge number of advanced threats.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Human\nclassification,&nbsp;particularly&nbsp;when dealing with massive amounts of\ndata,&nbsp;is fault-prone&nbsp;because of&nbsp;boredom&nbsp;and various\ndistractions. Machines, on the other hand,&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;mind&nbsp;working on&nbsp;the\nsimilar&nbsp;routine, again and again.&nbsp;Also, they conduct routine and\nrepetitive tasks&nbsp;a lot&nbsp;quicker&nbsp;with extra efficiency&nbsp;in\ncomparison to&nbsp;humans.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>With AI,&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;essential&nbsp;to keep a watch&nbsp;over the results to verify&nbsp;whether or not&nbsp;various algorithms are still&nbsp;operating&nbsp;inside&nbsp;the required&nbsp;parameters. AI, without any kind of&nbsp;human assistance,&nbsp;may&nbsp;divert from the set track.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;operating&nbsp;in partnership with Artificial Intelligence, researchers are&nbsp;freed&nbsp;from most of the burden of work.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>However, human intelligence is not sufficient for such calculations and multiple mathematical\nfunctions. And the phenomena of cyber security demands more than simple data\nanalysis.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>In cyber security,\nwhen defenders are evaluating a risk or creating an alert, or scrutinizing an\naccurate response, they require aspects of Human Intelligence. AI technologies\nhave not yet evolved with the potential to replace these abilities of human\nintelligence.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>AI Augmentation<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very true that AI may not identify whether an alert is a real attack,\nwhich human cognition skills can, although AI can speed up the detection of the\nattack by the augmentation of human analyst potential. AI will provide\nefficient solutions to the human analysts, solve the queries for them and\nperform those tasks where human capability fails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listed below are some technical methods of human skill augmentation\nthrough AI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Triaging:<\/strong> AI driven techniques\nmight be utilized to enhance human analysis. AI will deploy machine learning\nprocesses of historical patterns as well as data visualization to filter out\nthe pertinent alerts quickly and provide the triaged and enhanced alerts for\nthose human analysts to carry the investigation further.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Threat Hunting:&nbsp;<\/strong> AI is highly\nbeneficial as it will look for patterns and various anomalies though the entire\ndata and provide the outcome to human analysts for further investigation. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Incident Analysis or\nInvestigation:&nbsp;<\/strong>Humans have an advantage when we talk about investigating\nany kind of incident. Security investigations demand a bundle of reasoning\nskills which modern AI technologies do not have. AI models basically answer\nwhat has happened to the asset, who are the real attackers and several other\nquestions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Threat\nAnticipation:&nbsp;<\/strong>AI will also enhance human potential in threat\nanticipation. Threat anticipation for a company notices when a violation occurs\nin other organizations and assures its customers by alerting them as soon as\npossible.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Incident\nResponse:&nbsp;<\/strong>AI even helps in incident response. When an alert is\ninitiated as an incident, an efficient response needs 4 crucial steps- having the\nspread, recovering the impacted systems, minimizing the major causes of the\nattack and enhancing their security framework for the future.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Future Outlook<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the present era, AI\noriented technologies&nbsp;can\nperform quick&nbsp;mathematical calculations&nbsp;to\nreinforce&nbsp;the&nbsp;crucial&nbsp;abilities of human intelligence.\nAnd&nbsp;this is the realm&nbsp;of applications&nbsp;where&nbsp;Artificial\nIntelligence provides the largest perk for cyber security.\n\nBased on the results\nof the algorithm, human intelligence is required again to take decisions with\nrespect to the data categorized or considered by the AI machine.&nbsp;In fact,\nthe relationship between human and artificial intelligence is basically\nsymbiotic: in the primary step, expertise of cyber security is required to\nstructure and categorize training data, chose correct algorithms and, in\nseveral cases, determine the appropriate response.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence and machine learning have the capability to advance security as well as data-safety solutions by processing&nbsp;analytic insights.&nbsp;Cyber security companies&nbsp;are faced with&nbsp;multiple transformations which&nbsp;have been well documented in the past years. Multiple organizations are looking forward to switching to AI for security reasons.&nbsp;Artificial Intelligence (AI)&nbsp;happens to be a well-known buzzword&nbsp;in the present era. 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