AI in Cybersecurity
AI in Cybersecurity
AI in Cybersecurity
10/06/2018
Version: Final
Action
Problem description - Why do we need AI in Cybersecurity
• Rate of growth in Cyber threats or attacks
• Complexity of attack mechanism
• Cyber attacks claim the cost of more than $100 billion every year
• Requirements establishment:
Determine what organizations need and would like to implement through artificial intelligence and
establishing effective business and technical requirements for any organizations would help to build
these Intelligent machines.
• Implementation management:
Installing intelligent tools depending on the type of organizations and their business needs.
These smart machines will be production ready to identify, prevent and highlight any cyber
threats to organizations.
• Regular compliance:
Regular update to the threat intelligence knowledge database constantly to stay ahead and
detect any vulnerabilities. Intelligent algorithms to update the dataset automatically reduces
human effort to update the knowledge database.
Critical Factors
• Knowledge database accuracy:
The ability to access security research papers and news stories and their availability influences the collecting of
raw data to build intelligent systems. Also, the amount of accurate data directly affects the intelligence and
performance level of smart machines.
• System implementation:
System administration and service operations with the knowledge necessary to configure and install intelligent
machines to run in the production environment.
• Configuration management:
The ability of AI machines to install tools to update the knowledge database regularly with the no or
insignificant help of security personnel.
Key Success Criteria
• Learn and detect cyber-threats:
AI systems can learn various types of attacks and their defence mechanisms using
knowledge database using machine learning, deep learning, Visual perception & voice
recognition on their own.
• Minimum maintenance:
Minute changes required to maintain the system.
The following summarizes the alternative approach for an organization to counter cyber-
threats:
Mohan Rajanna
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