Cybersecurity in AI-turbocharged era

This whitepaper discusses the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity, focusing on both its benefits and potential risks. It highlights how AI has been integrated into ESET’s detection engine, enhancing its effectiveness in threat detection and intelligence.

The book outlines the defensive uses of AI, such as processing vast amounts of data to identify attacks, analyzing suspicious or malicious code, monitoring network traffic for malicious patterns, and prioritizing alerts. It also discusses future applications, including creating new detections based on threat descriptions and scanning an organization’s environment for hidden vulnerabilities.

However, the whitepaper also warns of the limitations of AI, such as high false-positive rates and the need for human oversight to prevent AI-powered security from deteriorating. It also discusses the potential misuse of AI by cybercriminals, including the production of new malware, improving the quality of victim targeting, and boosting the language quality of malicious spam campaigns.

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