The world is online like never before. From work meetings, emails and text messages to shopping, bill payments and banking, the possibilities are endless. Advances in technology save people time and give businesses new tools for growth.
But that connection comes at a price. The Internet also contains tools for searching for exploitable vulnerabilities, holding companies hostage with ransomware, performing sophisticated phishing and social engineering attacks, hacking sensitive information, and storing personal data such as social security numbers and addresses. Criminals exfiltrating data are more abundant than ever before.
Will artificial intelligence and machine learning make it easier or harder for businesses to defend against such attacks? Could other improvements provide additional defenses against cyberattacks?
The pros and cons of some advances have been in the news lately. Jeffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI,” recently left Google to warn of the dangers of the very technology he helped develop. He fears that generative artificial intelligence, which can generate text, images, video and audio, will be misinformed and one day even undermine human creativity. Some say such fears are hypothetical.
Drata has compiled a list of five technological innovations that are changing the way companies monitor and protect sensitive data critical to their digital operations.
