While optimists have viewed the rise of AI tools as a potential solution for everything, according to an article in TechTarget, experts caution that those looking at incorporating it into their cybersecurity defenses need to carefully consider the downsides, including:
- Potential high costs for integration and monitoring of AI into existing IT systems and structures
- High resource demands, including large data sets to use as training data
- Limited numbers of available IT experts
- Biases in AI training data, leading to biases in proposed IT actions
This is not to say AI has only drawbacks, however. As has been noted in many locations, AI in cybersecurity offers advantages in terms of:
- Improved detection, analysis, and responses to security threats
- Greater understanding of systems and networks
- Better handling of large amounts of data for analysis of trends and unusual behaviors
- Rapid suggestion for methods to address identified vulnerabilities
Says Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, “Adversaries have been using artificial intelligence tools for some time. If you’re not doing that, then you are really at great risk of being subjected to sophisticated attacks – more sophisticated than you may even imagine.”
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