According to Elsayed, AI can be used by cybersecurity analysts and system defenders to detect new malicious attacks and classify and identify new attack vectors for bad actors. She added that by simulating with hackers, we may be able to create possible attack scenarios and learn how to think like an attacker and provide more robust tools for defense.
“This is a way to generate combinations of attacks that the system’s defenders may not have anticipated,” she says.
Elsayed added that a practical example could be a user pasting a suspicious email into a generated AI system and asking about the email’s legitimacy. AI can help screen and catch red flags like suspicious logos or misspellings.
“AI can be an early warning or screening tool,” she says.
For AI to become an important tool, Elsey says that being able to explain why the AI considers an item to be a phishing email is important in building trust among users. El-Sayed said governance and responsible use of AI is essential as it can be considered a “double-edged sword”.
“We need governance, rules, policies and a kind of code of conduct,” she added. “Defining best practices and specifying how AI will be used within your organization is essential.It is possible to use AI to build long-term cybersecurity resilience. ”
AI will not replace humans, but it has the potential to change our work patterns, Elsayed noted, adding that AI has long been a part of daily life in areas such as medical image processing with early detection of diseases such as lung cancer and facial recognition on smartphones.
“Generative AI has made AI more visible, but AI itself is not new,” Elsayed said.
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