decrypting myths
and deploying
personally
tailored
phishing emails.
Advancing threats
don’t just come from
cybercriminals looking
to steal company data.
Organisations are also at risk
of becoming collateral damage
from associated cyberwarfare
between nation states, such as
the 2017 Russian cyberattack on
Ukraine with its fallout affecting
hundreds of organisations
across 64 countries.
As a result, we need
greater assurances that our
cybersecurity can stand up to
morphing threats.
The future of AI-based
cybersecurity
AI deployment is well ahead
of other avenues in terms
of protection. If you haven’t
invested yet, this won’t
necessarily leave you wide open
to threat.
are done and eliminating daily updates
which lose productivity. The CISO’s
quality of job role is improved, leaving
them free to focus on tasks that require
human intelligence.
Security shouldn’t be in your face; it
should be business as usual. AI provides
an improved level of efficiency, but
people can’t abdicate responsibility
entirely to AI.
To be effective, AI needs to directly
support a clear cybersecurity strategy
and be part of an integrated approach
to risk if we are to move to a mature
cybersecurity operation. At its optimum
level, it will be a very powerful tool, but
we’re not there yet.
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Issue 17
Myth four: Investing in AI-based
security will instantly make
me un-hackable
It’s important to realise that AI can
be the solution but it can also be the
threat. As the technology advances for
protection, cybercriminals will use it to
find vulnerabilities.
Hacking-as-a-service will advance,
widening the pool of cybercriminals
with access to hacking tools which will
increasingly deploy AI.
There is also the element of human error
which is more difficult to prevent as
attacks get increasingly sophisticated
by targeting our connected devices
What we have to look forward
to is proper integration of
end-to-end enterprise-based
AI solutions that will take us forward
from where we are now. As it advances,
it will reduce false positives through
better quality of data and provide
better contextualisation of threat
protection to the operating environment
and uniqueness of what individual
organisations do.
The AI system will learn with the
organisation and will have to adapt to the
multiple ways that we connect, hopping
from one network to another through
interconnectivity. This will also advance
beyond our work-based environment into
our wider connected world. AI needs
to adapt and we must be ready to stay
ahead of the curve if we are to survive
the widening security risks. u
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