Artificial intelligence is being explored as a tool by corporate cybersecurity experts and cybercriminals.
Cybercriminals are actively using AI “in a whole bunch of ways” and it is being used in companies “partially because this is the only way to keep up with the velocity of the changes that the bad guys are throwing at us,” said Alan Brill, Secaucus, New Jersey-based senior managing director and founder of Kroll Cyber Risk, a division of Kroll LLC.
“If you’re standing still, you’re falling behind,” he said.
For criminals, finding a cyber vulnerability is manually intensive, said Andreas Kuehlmann, CEO and executive chair of San Jose, California-based cybersecurity company Cycuity Inc. AI will give them another tool that will increase their productivity, he said.
The technology can also be used to eliminate the revealing mistakes that non-native English-speaking criminals sometimes make in phishing attempts. It turns out AI “is really good at it,” said John Dwyer, Pittsburgh-based head of research at IBM Security X-Force.
Meanwhile, “a lot of companies are implementing AI and putting in new processes without a…
