On the 7th Day of Christmas: 2018 Prediction

AI for Securing and Attacking

As more and more attacks are happening to businesses protected by firewalls, clearly we need a new source of protection. We are always looking for better ways to protect ourselves. Monitoring behaviours is becoming a more popular way to protect yourself from attacks (its what Heathrow Airport should have done!). Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an excellent way to recognise patterns as well as the anomalies within them. This is what makes it the perfect solution to use to protect your business from attacks from both external and internal (you never know!) sources.

However, because the AI is based on the machine making decisions instead of humans. It means that a rogue actor with superior skills may be able to beat the system and therefore take control of it.

Further than this, we expect that those pesky bad guys we also begin to use AI to attack businesses. We actually predict the first AI attack to occur in 2018. The actions that AI will assist with may not be much different from the attacks we see today. Yes, we can still expect denial of service attacks and access via a loose password. Instead of a different type of attack we expect AI may help to make attacks faster and more powerful.

We know this isn’t what you want to hear on a jolly December day, but it is better to start protecting your business before it’s too late! Start protecting your business but be aware of the risks that come with using it. Also, remember whatever you have access to, it is likely those cyber criminals have access too!

December 15, 2017/by Katie

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