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Cybersecuritywithai 190213234751
Cybersecuritywithai 190213234751
IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial Intelligence
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEORAI IS THE INTELLIGENCESHOWN BY
MACHINES. WHEN ANY MACHINEBECOMESAWAREOF ITSSURROUNDINGS
AND DOESSOMETHINGKEEPING THAT IN MIND IN ORDERTO ACHIEVE
SOMETHING. USUALLY THETERM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEISUSED WHEN A M
ACHINEBEHAVES LIKEA HUMAN IN ACTIVITIESSUCH AS PROBLEM
SOLVINGOR LEARNING, WHICH ISALSO KNOWN AS MACHINELEARNING. AI IS
A SCIENCEAND TECHNOLOGY BASED ON DISCIPLINESSUCH AS:
COMPUTERSCIENCE, ENGINEERING, PSYCHOLOGY ETC.
• Attackers are also using AI and ML to better understand their targets and
launch attacks.AI increases the ability of defenders to identify attacks, but it
may also help hackers learn about a target’s vulnerabilities.
Which types of artificial intelligence
applications are being used in cyber security
solutions?
It is up to human imagination. For the sake of clarity, following application categories
can be examined:
• Spam FilterApplications (spam assassin)
• Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Fraud detection
• Credit scoring and next-bestoffers
• Botnet Detection
• Secure UserAuthentication
• Cyber security Ratings
• Hacking Incident Forecasting
How can an artificial intelligence application
that does malware analysis be used?
Of courseAI can be used to detect cyber attacks. There are plenty of academic
researches about detecting cyber attacks using artificial intelligence. The
success rate of those researches varies between 85% and 99%.
In the last few years, in addition to academic researches, some products have
been improved to detect cyber attacks with the help of artificial intelligence like
DarkTrace. DarkTrace claims to have more than 99% of success rate and it also
has a very low rate of false positives.
Are there any companies that develop cyber
security applications using artificial
intelligence?
There are lots of companies that develop cyber security applications by using
artificial intelligence. The companies that started early focusing on this domain
started worthing more in a very short time. Here are the example.
Dark trace, the company that was founded in 2013, developed a product that
does anomaly detection on a network with machine learning. The company is
now worth 825 million$. CYLANCE, the company that was founded in 2012,
developed a product to prevent advanced level of cyber threats. The company is
worth 1 billion $now.
Examples of the machine learning algorithms
which are being used to develop cyber security
applications
Spam assassin, for instance, is a project that is an open source code and it does
spam mail filtering. Spam assassin makes a feature list in order to control if an
email is a spam mail or not. Extracted features from an analyzed email is
processed with Naive Bayes algorithm. The most common algorithms in cyber
attack systems are, Random Forest, Decision Tree, Support Vector Machines etc.
In the last few years, the most commonly used machine learning algorithm is
without a doubt, Deep Learning algorithm. Deep learning is a machine learning
algorithm that uses artificial neural networks. Nowadays, most of the companies
that do artificial intelligence researchers use this method.
Is it possible to detect cyber attacks before
they happen?
In order for a cyber attack to be successful, there are some steps to follow
successfully. These steps are called “Cyber Kill Chain”. Attackers might leave
some traces in some of these steps or they can access information about the
targeted company that was leaked before, while they’re in information
acquisition phase. We can see similar situations like this one. Preventing these
kind of situations is only possible if you observe your company constantly with
the eyes of an attacker. In addition to that, knowing what the attackers can find
when they do their research about your company beforehand, and as a result,
takingprecautions prevents these situations.
Norm shield Cyber Risk Scorecard, scans most of the information about your
company, that can be accessed via internet.
Some of the information that can be accessed about your company are:
• Posts that target your company in dark forums or social media.
• Leaked information about your company’s customers and employees. (e-mail,
passwords, credit card information etc.)
• Phish website, mobile and desktop applications about your company.
If you know your virtual existence well and can manage it, you can reduce the
risk of being affected from a cyber attack. Cyber Risk Scorecard, gives you the
possibility to access information about your company from various sources and
lets you manage that data which results to taking precautions.
Advantages of Artificial Intelligence
• Organizations face millions of threats each day making is impossible for
security researcher to analyze and categorize them. This task can be done by
using Machine Learning in an efficient way.
• By finding a way to work towards unsupervised and supervised machine
learning will enable us to fully utilize our current knowledge of threats and
vectors. Once those are combined with the ability to detect new attacks and
discover new vulnerabilities, our systems will be able to protect us from threats
is a much better and efficient way.
• Another benefit of using AI based machines is that, in theory, these systems
would work in a more calculated approach and in a more accurate way
resulting in eliminating human error. Additionally, these systems could work
simultaneously on various tasks, monitoring and protecting a vast number of
devices and systems.They can therefore mitigate large scale attacks
Disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence
• The biggest disadvantage of anyAI based system is that we cannot predict
what it’ll do. If fallen into the wrong hands, the result could be fatal and a
whole different level can could do more damage than good.
• A super-intelligent AI will be really good at completing goals, but, if those
goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’ll have a problem.AI in security systems had
foregone the utilization of valuable analyst skills and therefore didn’t benefit
from humanfeedback.
• Even though the initial concerns about the development onAI in cyber security
may revolve around concerns about eliminating the much needed human
expertise, intuition and judgment, the real disadvantage of artificial
intelligence is its unpredictability.
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