Usage of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security

In the age of Artificial Intelligence (“AI'') the intelligent machines which have permeated our lives in numerous subtle and not-so-subtle ways, performing all those activities that could only be performed by humans. Countries like Colombia have approved driverless cars in their selected states. Doing many jobs like executing complex financial transactions, facial expression, speech, man recognition techniques for security purposes, and beating the human brain in many fields are now done by these intelligent machines. Today AI is more intelligent than human beings, it could understand the surroundings and perceive actions in a much better way than humans. 

This rapidly emerging field has increased its investment in private sectors & firms such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon who have got into an AI arms race. These firms are poaching researchers and setting up laboratories. AI has gained so much popularity and is becoming more enmeshed in our day-to-day lives and will likely to increase in the future.

If we talk about cybersecurity, then the use of AI’s upcoming technologies can help security experts to solve many cybersecurity problems that the world might face in the future. Many AI technologies can help cybersecurity experts to analyze, study and research more about cybercrimes. One of the most promising behaviors of AI is that it doesn’t rely on the signatures, but can automatically detect those threats and attacks that are not possible.  AI technologies like face, speech recognition can help cybercrime experts to solve crimes. AI’s faster perception power and automated techniques can detect cyber threats easily and can notify cybersecurity experts about them. With AI’s biometric-based login techniques, we can make our security stronger. With the use of AI machine learning, cybersecurity experts can detect malicious activities like malware, Trojan horses, ransom, etc., and can help to protect the network. Along with detecting illegal activities, it can also detect the patterns of malicious activities in network traffic, websites, and all the packets of data traveling across the networks. AI will surely help cybersecurity more in the future, as its increasing demand in industries and AI open-source platforms, could bring many solutions to upcoming cyber-attacks in the future.  

But as we all know that AI usage has no restrictions and nearly all software are available on open-source platforms for training purposes i.e. they can be accessed by anyone from anywhere. So there is a high risk of AI technologies on cybersecurity. 

The term "Adversarial AI" alludes to the advancement of AI for pernicious purposes. The action of adversarial AI causes AI models to carry in a manner that is great for the assailant. An attacker can harm cybersecurity by tricking and manipulating AI’s system neural networks for misidentifying objects due to modifications made in them.

 

                                                                                                    ~Mantavya Jain

                                                                                                      (Legal Intern)

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