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How I can implement artificial intelligence into cyber security

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AI is becoming more and more prevalent in cybersecurity. According to IBM, in terms of

mitigating and combating cyber attacks, security professionals struggle for several reasons:

1. They face an overwhelming number of tasks. The sheer number of analysis and
assessment tasks they’re responsible for handling are beyond human scale.
2. There’s never enough time (time deficit). The time required to respond to cyber
attacks has to be minimized as much as possible.
3. There’s too much data to handle (data overload). Although having lots of data at
your disposal is great, all of that data has to be sorted through and analyzed. This
takes a lot of time and resources without AI cybersecurity tools at your disposal.
4. The industry is facing an ongoing skills shortage. As we’ve seen for a while now
within the industry, the necessary skills are not always readily available.

Therefore, all IBM Security products use AI. IBM further details that AI can automate the
response to security breaches — it enables faster detection, analysis, and response,
thereby accelerating the process with the benefit of enhanced accuracy.

“Where do I think AI will be in 5 to 10 years? While the possibilities are endless, I believe
the most consequential will be secure application development.”

— Sridhar Muppidi (Chief Technology Officer for IBM Security)

Similarly, Microsoft also talks about the advancement of cybersecurity with the help of
artificial intelligence. Some of the major advantages of using AI in cybersecurity they
highlight include:

• Enhanced cyber attack detection and threat analysis,

• Improved ability to resist and respond to the scale and speed of attackers,
• Greater ability to interpret and learn from attacks to improve response

How Implementing AI in Cybersecurity Benefits Your Organization and Customers

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There are numerous benefits for you and your customers if AI cybersecurity is utilized as
part of your organization’s defenses. Organizations can prevent downtime if they have
robust cybersecurity systems that employ AI. Data from a 2019 PwC Digital Trust Insights
survey showed that nearly half of their respondents (47% of a total of 3,500 organizations
across the globe) reported that cyber incidents caused downtime between 2017 to 2019.

With the increase in cyber attacks occurring each year, these numbers are expected to
increase further. With the help of AI, organizations can automate cyber attack detection and
response. According to Webroot, AI technologies (like automated detection and response
[ADR] tools) can be used to automate everyday security tasks without relying solely on
human teams. AI-based cybersecurity systems learn and adapt to ever-evolving cyber
attacks and malware.

Automation is particularly useful for shifting the responsibility of handling monotonous tasks
from your IT and cybersecurity employees. This allows them to shift their focus to projects
and tasks that require their expertise, skills, and critical thinking capabilities.

AT&T emphasizes the benefits of blending AI and cyber security as a reasonable strategy
for adaptive cyber security. All of this shows that the organization can benefit greatly by
preventing disastrous attacks if they integrate AI into their cyber security defenses, which
will result in more accurate, timely, and robust detection of cyber attacks.

According to MIT News, detecting the data generated in a cyber attack among all the
normal data generated by the organization’s customers and employees is nothing less than
finding a needle in a haystack. Therefore, it seems necessary to human-machine
collaboration, which will ultimately optimally cover key areas of cybersecurity.

Applications of AI in Cybersecurity

Now that we have a good idea of what AI cybersecurity entails, let’s explore a half-dozen
practical applications of it:

1. Enhancing Your Network Security

Network security deals with the protection against destruction, unauthorized access, and
misuse of files and data in a system. It also protects the confidentiality of a network within
an organization. AI can be utilized to automatically analyze the network traffic for any
potential breaches or unauthorized access. Nick Atkin, who is the Head of Solution
Architecture at Dubber, is quoted as saying, “AI can signal not just breaches in data
protection but also breaches related to the content within that data.”

In network security, your network architecture and security policies are essential. The
network architecture is responsible for taking care of the ways a business connects to the
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internet. The architecture is also important for keeping the business reliably and safely
connected to the internet. For managing security on a network, a network policy is typically
used to formalize the guidelines and procedures utilized to keep a network secure.
According to Toolbox, AI can employ security policies and map the network traffic patterns
to these policies.

Some common AI-powered cybersecurity platforms include:

• IBM QRadar
• Cynet
• Darktrace
• FireEye

2. Detecting Advanced Malware

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Malware has been a serious threat to the security of organizations, and they evolve very
rapidly. According to TechTarget SearchSecurity, one of the most triumphant
accomplishments of AI in cybersecurity is the accurate detection of malware due to the
availability of large amounts of data for training the deep learning models.

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AI cybersecurity threat detection systems are particularly useful for finding malware
applications that can keep changing themselves to avoid getting detected (e.g., polymorphic
and metamorphic malware).

Polymorphic malware is a category of malicious programs that continuously change a

portion of their codes and use encryption (for hiding its code) to evade anti-malware
software. These cyber weapons use mutation engines to modify themselves and
continuously evolve so as to make them difficult to detect. Unfortunately, these malicious
programs have become quite common. According to a research by Webroot among the
malicious software they analyze, 94% of them are polymorphic in nature.

Likewise, metamorphic malware is a category of similar malicious programs that change

themselves to avoid getting detected, but they are even harder to detect than their
polymorphic counterparts. The prime difference between metamorphic and polymorphic
malware is that the former change their source codes entirely; polymorphic keeps some
parts of its code, only modifying others.

The reason for rewriting the entire source code is to evade the anti-malware tools more
effectively. These malwares are extremely difficult to detect using traditional cybersecurity
tools. Thus, the learning and adaptive capabilities of AI cybersecurity are needed to detect
and handle these continuously evolving threats.

3. Increasing Your Organization’s Data Privacy

AI cybersecurity systems can help prevent breaches of sensitive organization and customer
data. Google has used Tensorflow to block 100 million spam emails. Tensorflow is a deep
learning frame library for preventing image-based emails that are hard to detect and can
also be used to steal organizational data.

An IBM Report analyzed the cost of data breaches. According to this report, customer data
was exposed in 44% of the crimes, making it the most common type of information exposed
in these breaches. The same report also shows that data breaches of organizations with
automated security systems resulted in significantly lower costs per breach ($2.90 million)
compared to those with no automation ($6.71 million).

4. Taking Your Cloud Security to the Next Level

With almost everything moving to the cloud, the risk of cyber attacks on cloud systems have
also increased significantly. Gartner predicts that the cloud-first principle will be adopted by
eight in 10 (85%) organizations by 2025. It also predicts that cloud-native platforms will host
nearly all (more than 95%) digital workloads in that same timeframe.

According to CNBC, tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have invested heavily
in cybersecurity to combat the growing number of cyber attacks on their cloud platforms:

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• Google acquired Mandiant,

• Microsoft acquired CloudKnox Security and RiskIQ, and
• AWS acquired Wickr.

AI is a very important element for preventing cyber attacks on the cloud because of the
large volume and evolution of such attacks. Cloud service providers are actively employing
advanced AI to create more robust and resilient cyber security systems. “100% of our
products use AI,” says Sridhar Muppidi, the CTO of IBM Security mentioned earlier.

5. Giving IoT Security a Boost

The Internet of Things (IoT) is taking the world ahead by connecting everything to the
internet. It has the potential to revolutionize almost all industries, and many businesses are
investing heavily in IoT. McKinsey estimates that through 2022, IoT technology will
experience a 13.6% increase in investments. IoT will connect a huge number of devices to
the internet, thus exposing these devices (and the data produced by them) to potential
attacks.

It’s not possible to handle the security of enormous amounts of devices on a human scale.
AI will eventually become the only option for automatically monitoring, detecting, and
preventing cyber attack activities. Azom describes IoT as still being in its infancy, with few
security mechanisms for these devices. Knowing this, capitalizing on AI cybersecurity may
help you make these smart devices more secure.

However, the development of AI- and machine learning-based cybersecurity for IoT is still
new and under research. Many researchers are exploring this avenue, such as Kuzlu et
al. who explored the role that AI will play in the security of IoT devices.

The Cybersecurity Risks of Artificial Intelligence

AI has very promising applications for improving the security of organizations.
Simultaneously, it also comes with problems such as misuse by cybercriminals and nation-
state actors. The vast amount of publicly available data that helps make advanced AI
cybersecurity systems more resilient and effective at attack prevention can also be used by
cybercriminals to train their AI systems to bypass them.

It would not be wrong to say that under unfortunate circumstances, AI can be a double-
edged sword in the world of cybersecurity. Some of the cases in which bad guys can use AI
to their advantage are as follows:

Developing Evolving Tools That Can Enhance Cyber Attacks

As we touched on earlier, malware developers can use AI to develop advanced polymorphic
and metamorphic malware. These systems are difficult to detect by traditional anti-malware
systems and cause serious problems if they infiltrate your network and other critical
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systems. AI can be used to make malware adaptable to detection by training the system on
detection by powerful anti-malware software thus incrementally making the malware better
and better. The more time is spent in training the system for adaptability, the harder it would
be to detect such malware.

Creating “Deep Fakes” That Make More Convincing Phishing

Attacks
Deep fake data can be generated using a vast amount of training data making it possible to
bypass the security systems because such systems are dependent on data. Deep fakes
also include facial videos and voices which match the original one so closely that it is
extremely hard to distinguish.

With sufficient data for training, cybercriminals can use AI to make super realistic deep
fakes that can bypass automated systems and humans as well. One such case is when
the hackers used deep fake technology to impersonate an energy company CEO’s voice.
The attackers used it to contact one of the CEO’s subordinates to instruct them to transfer
$243,000 to a fraudulent account they controlled.

Creating Physical Threats and New Ransomware Opportunities

Self-driving cars use AI for their functioning and security. There is a possibility of attacking
these self-driving cars with AI. This is discussed by Macquarie University, which states that
self-driving cars can be vulnerable to malware attacks. Similarly, AI-based adversarial
attacks can be used to fool self-driving cars into misinterpreting signs.

Final Thoughts on AI Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence, undoubtedly, has unmatched potential for accuracy, speed, and scale
in cybersecurity. New technological advancements such as IoT are bringing larger
quantities of data to the table, and along with all of that information comes an increasing
number of analyses that have to be made.

The requirement to analyze big data in real-time with acceptable accuracy is already getting
out of hand for human intelligence. We need a way to intelligently, quickly, and effectively
sort through all the data “noise” to put it to use to enhance our defenses and mitigate
security issues. At present and in the future, AI will be needed in cybersecurity to make
robust and resilient systems that are adaptive, scalable, and automated.

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