How AI Firewalls Will Secure Your New Business Applications
ZDNET, Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
IT has always been an arms race. AI just brings a new class of arms to deploy and defend. How soon before AI-powered protection is ready for deployment?
AI and cybersecurity have been inextricably linked for many years. The good guys use AI to analyze incoming data packets and help block malicious activity while the bad guys use AI to find and create gaps in their targets' security. AI has contributed to the ever-escalating arms race.
AI has been used to strengthen defense systems by analyzing vast amounts of incoming traffic at machine speed, and identifying known and emergent patterns. As criminals, hackers, and nation-states deploy more and more sophisticated attacks, AI tools are used to block some of those attacks, and aid human defenders by escalating only the most critical or complex attack behaviors.