ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE ERA OF CYBERSECURITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL ERA

Cyber security has become a major concern in the digital era.

- DR. S. KRISHNAN

With the advances in information technology (IT), criminals are using cyberspace to commit numerous cyber crimes. Data breaches, ID theft, cracking the captcha, and other such stories abound, affecting millions of individuals as well as organizations. The challenges have always been endless in inventing right controls and procedures and implementing them with acute perfection for tackling cyber attacks and crimes. Cyber infrastructures are highly vulnerable to intrusions and other threats. Physical devices and human intervention are not sufficient for monitoring and protection of these infrastructures; hence, there is a need for more sophisticated cyber defense systems that need to be flexible, adaptable and robust, and able to detect a wide variety of threats and make intelligent real-time decisions.

Technology plays an important role in solving the issues faced by industries across the globe, and many of them are investing to harness it. But the question arises—which technologies will really change the world? The best way to address the question is the use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. AI is an opportunity that will play an important role in the coming years to secure data against cyberattacks intelligently.