Something I am not seeing being talked about enough are AI-based cyberattacks. The thing that concerns me a lot about these is that as AI continues to improve, how can we keep up with it and stay protected? Do we even have solutions right now that work?
I have a a lot of concerns with AI myself because I not only own a small business but I have several websites that can easily be attacked in the future if we are not prepared.
Anomaly detection has already been being used by companies big and small. This is basically using AI to fight AI. These systems will look for patterns that imply something is AI responsible and block them in real time.
@ironfelixx This is similar to the discussion I see about using AI within healthcare to catch patterns it would take humans far too long to notice. I think this is truly where AI shines and becomes a valuable tool.
@alxdavis Data scraping and recognizing patterns is probably the most use case for it. I know AI can do a lot for us but we have to make sure we don't rely on it too much.
AEP or Advanced Endpoint Protection is often used for stuff like this and as mentioned, AI has already been implemented to protect from AI attacks. It is sort of a problem that has its own solution. I think it is important though that all employees at companies understand what they attacks are and what they can look like though as there are still plenty that fall for standard malware, ransomware, etc. that have been around for 2 decades at this point.
@boldstix This is a fair point. I don't think companies actually train their employees well enough on how to spot these things which tends to make up for a good 70% of the problems with them. All's it takes is one person to open mail they shouldn't and click a link.
@alxdavis They absolutely don't. I have worked for companies that never even addressed it as an issue until someone fell for one of them and made a mess for all of us. I guess some people just assume it can't ever happen to them because they pay for software to protect against it.