Artificial Intelligence’s potential for the defense domain is huge as AI solutions are expected to emerge in critical fields such as cyber defense, decision-support systems, risk management, pattern detection, cyber situation consciousness, projection, malware recognition, and data correlation to name a few.
Experts have already seen incredible technological advancement on self-driving automobiles where dissection of the encompassing environment is made in actual-time, and AI systems maneuver these automobiles independent autonomously under specific circumstances. One of the potential applications of AI in cyber defense may be to facilitate the setting up of self-configuring networks. It would mean that AI systems could detect vulnerabilities and execute response actions like self-healing. This opens new ways of strengthening communications and information systems security by providing network resilience, prevention, and protection against cyber threats.
Speed:
Cyber experts concur that the amalgamation of the human system is a critical element that must be in attendance in an AI cybersecurity system. If one takes into account the high speed necessary to perform any cyber operation, it is apparent that only machines are competent in reacting efficiently in the early stages of somber cyber-attacks. AI can thus overcome the deficit of traditional cybersecurity tools. It is also an important mechanism able to recover malware detection rates using a baseline of cyber intelligence data. AI cybersecurity systems can study from indicators of negotiation and may be able to resemble the characteristics of small clues even if they are separated throughout the network.
Increased Efficiency:
Another aspect pertinent in building an AI-enabled cyber defense could be the future insinuations of Quantum computing or high processing computers. This improvement to support data-processing may augment the competence of algorithms. Algorithms are critical components of running AI and may be tailored to counteract multifaceted cyber threats. An algorithm is a set of step-by-step training given to a computer to achieve a specific task. AI may push this technology to a new level, to accomplish intelligent self-sufficient algorithms. To exemplify these research challenges, Facebook recently discarded an AI experiment after ‘chatbots’ invented their language which was not comprehensible by humans. Computer machines had showcased better skills than humans in playing chess or poker. This infiltrating technology is likely to be disorderly in many ways nobody can forecast today.
New Applications:
New AI applications are budding on Intent Based Network Security (IBNS), on AI platforms for cyber defense or immune computer systems which can self-adapt. On the flip side, the rise of AI-enabled cyber-attacks is predicted to cause a boost of sophisticated cyber threats. Ongoing and future research activities should be discovered in countering multifaceted cyber threats, malware reverse engineering, and projection to augment cyber situation awareness among others.
Such a pattern can be conceived as a kind of “smart machine”—an artificial intelligence—used to foresee attacks. Experts have described this cybersecurity analytics as a smart machine that is always watching the data in a company, a tool that can sieve the white noise and wait for the ones with rare blips on the screen, the one being browsed exterior of their baseline. Of course, not all glitches are confirmation of an impending attack nor symbolize any imminent danger. But as and when an unusual issue does show up, and proof confirms that it poses a real threat; the security team must pursue through actively and at that point, all the redressal concerning the attacks need to be made and planned and prepared accordingly. With the finely tuned intelligence of cybersecurity analytics, such losses can be decreased or eliminated.
Much before an attack is even feasible the cyber security teams can work out potential network vulnerabilities through meticulous penetration testing whether through human or AI agents. This type of work is accomplished by a security expert who deliberately breaks into the cosseted firm’s network to discover probable routes of entry.
