Amber Wolff, campaign specialist at McAfee, also contributed to this article.
The 20th century was uniquely fascinated with the idea of artificial intelligence (AI). From friendly and helpful humanoid machines — think Rosie the Robot maid or C-3PO — to monolithic and menacing machines like HAL 9000 and the infrastructure of the Matrix, AI was a standard fixture in science fiction. Today, as we've entered the AI era in earnest, it's become clear that our visions of AI were far more fantasy than prophecy. But what we did get right was AI's potential to revolutionize the world around us — in the service of both good actors and bad.
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized just about every industry in which it's been adopted, including healthcare, the stock markets, and, increasingly, cybersecurity, where it's being used to both supplement human labor and strengthen defenses. Because of recent developments in machine learning, the tedious work that was once done by humans — sifting through seemingly endless amounts of data looking for threat indicators and anomalies — can now be automated. Modern AI's ability to "understand" threats, risks, and relationships gives it the ability to filter out a substantial amount of the noise burdening cybersecurity departments and surface only the indicators most likely to be legitimate.
The benefits of this are twofold: Threats no longer slip through the cracks because of fatigue or boredom, and cybersecurity professionals are freed to do more mission-critical tasks, such as re ..
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