In the near future, artificial intelligence-driven cyber operations will play an outsized role in how the federal government protects its networks from malicious actors and nation-state threats.
Aligning to the federal government commitment to “promote the use of trustworthy AI” (Executive Order 13960) and to “maintain American leadership in AI” (Executive Order 13859), a growing number of federal agencies are making strategic moves to broaden and accelerate enterprise AI implementation. A recent report from the Future Defense Task Force said that the Defense Department should divest legacy platforms and increase funding for cyber and artificial intelligence. The Department of Health and Human Services appointed the first chief AI officer, and in its latest AI strategy, highlighted that the department will promote and support using AI in its new and existing cybersecurity frameworks.
The benefits of using AI to shore up the U.S. government’s digital defenses are clear. Faster, smarter and more automated threat processing helps detect and respond to alerts and anomalies in near real-time, allowing cyber analysts to quickly identify the most serious threats and bring their skills and experience to bear in neutralizing them.
But the most critical piece of the operation is often overlooked.
Data is the Fuel
It’s not software or the processors or even the algorithms that make AI-driven security effective. It’s the quality and quantity of threat intelligence that’s being fed into the AI tools that make the difference between an agency that is truly harnessing the power of AI-driven cybersecurity and one whose security protection is AI-driven in name only.
According to a recent Forti ..
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