Cybersecurity in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Risks and Solutions

Abstract

Researchers from Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, saw a 135% spike in unique social engineering attacks from January to February 2023, coinciding with the broad usage of ChatGPT, which was made public in October 2022. With the advancement in electronic attack methods, different facilities are looking for ways to protect their data and technology systems. To do this, they must adopt more proactive methods to overcome these threats. Thus, Artificial intelligence (AI) proved its capabilities to face such threats. The current study aimed to identify the applications of AI and the importance of the role it plays in information security applications and the era of cybersecurity. This paper relies on quantitative data published by international organizations and research centers. Through adopting the descriptive approach, the results of this investigation show that the important step for progress is in the level of Information Technology (IT) infrastructure protection. For IT, it is necessary to use AI. Taking all these things into consideration, the results suggest that AI will strengthen the barrier between your systems and cyber threats.