Cognitive Security
Muhammad Aamir
IS-013
Content
• Introduction to Cognitive Security
• Key Components of Cognitive Security
• Machine Learning and AI in Cognitive Security
• Implementation Steps of Cognitive Security
• Cognitive Security over Traditional Security
• Ethical Considerations in Cognitive Security
• Challenges of Cognitive Security
• Conclusion
Cognitive Security
• Cognitive security is an novel
approach that utilizes artificial
intelligence and machine learning to
proactively identify and reducing
cybersecurity threats.
It Includes:
• Analyzing vast amounts of data
• Adapting to new attack patterns
• Automating security responses.
Key Components of Cognitive Security
Machine Learning:
Algorithms learn from data to identify patterns and anomalies, enabling automated
detection of cyber threats.
Natural Language Processing:
Techniques that allow systems to understand and analyze unstructured data like threat
intelligence reports.
Behavioral Analytics:
Monitoring user and entity behaviors to spot suspicious activities and insider threats.
Machine Learning and AI in Cognitive Security
• Advanced machine learning • AI-powered predictive analytics
algorithms can rapidly analyze can forecast potential
vast amounts of security data vulnerabilities and recommend
to detect subtle patterns and preemptive actions to
anomalies indicative of cyber safeguard systems before
threats in real-time. attacks occur.
Automated Threat Detection Proactive Risk Mitigation
•Cognitive security leverages AI to
automate the investigation, triage, and
remediation of security incidents,
reducing the time and resources
required.
Streamlined Incident
Response
Implementation Steps of Cognitive Security
• Gather
comprehensive
data from
various sources,
including
Data Collection Model Training
network traffic,
system logs, andlearning to train cognitive
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Integration with predictive
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Infrastructure tools and
systems, such as
Continuous Monitoring
firewalls, IDS and
SIEM platforms.
• Implement real-
time monitoring
and analysis to
identify anomalies
1) IBM WATSON
• Found in 2002
• Memory16 terabytes of RAM
• Speed 80 tera FLOPS
• IBM Watson Security is an AI-
powered platform that uses
machine learning, cognitive
computing, and sophisticated
analytics to improve cybersecurity
• It gains enhanced threat detection
and response capabilities over
time as a result of its ongoing
learning from fresh data and user
feedback.
2) Dark Trace
• Established in 2013
• Darktrace, a British cyber security
company, which uses cutting-
edge machine learning and
artificial intelligence,
• Darktrace can quickly identify,
address, and neutralize online
threats
3) Microsoft Azure Sentinel
• Azure Sentinel connects with
other Azure services, delivers
cloud scalability and flexibility,
continuously learns and improves
its detection skills, and helps
decision-making through
visualization tools and dashboards
4)Splunk Security Solutions
Cognitive Security over Traditional Security
Proactive Threat • proactively identify dangers, both known
Detection and unknown
Real-time Monitoring • continuously analyzing data in real-time , minimize
the impact of cyber attack
and Response
Enhanced Threat • Enabling more informed decision-making
Intelligence and risk management.
• manage security across complex and
Improved Scalability dynamic environments without sacrificing
and Efficiency performance or efficiency
• analyze user behavior and network traffic
Behavioral Analytics patterns to detect anomalies
• blocking malicious traffic, reducing the
Automated Response need for manual intervention and enabling
faster response times.
Adaptive Security • Remain robust against new attacks and
weaknesses by continuously learning from
Measures new data and adjusting security measures
accordingly.
Ethical Considerations in Cognitive Security
Transparency Accountability Privacy Fairness
Cognitive security Clear lines of Privacy protections Cognitive systems
systems must be responsibility and must be built into must be designed to
transparent, with oversight are cognitive security avoid biases and
clear explanations of essential to ensure systems to prevent ensure equitable
how algorithms and cognitive security misuse of personal treatment across all
models make tools are used data. individuals and
decisions. responsibly. groups.
Challenges of Cognitive Security
• Data Privacy Concerns: Cognitive security systems require access to
large amounts of data, raising concerns about privacy and data
protection.
• Algorithm Bias and Fairness: AI and machine learning algorithms may
exhibit bias based on the data they are trained on, leading to unfair or
discriminatory outcome.
• Complexity and Interpretability: Cognitive security models can be
complex and difficult to interpret, making it challenging for security
analysts to understand and trust their decisions.
• Adversarial Attacks: Attackers manipulate input data to deceive the
system or cause it to make incorrect decisions.
Conclusion
• As technology keeps progressing, cognitive security will keep growing,
embracing new innovations like quantum computing, edge AI, and hyper-
personalized threat detection. Predictive analytics will become sharper,
allowing us to defend against new threats before they even emerge.
• Autonomous security systems will become more empowered to make
decisions independently, making incident response and remediation processes
smoother. In this landscape, cognitive security will be essential, serving as a
shield against the growing vulnerabilities of the Internet of Things and cloud-
based infrastructures.
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