AI vs. AI: 6 ways enterprises are automating cybersecurity to counter AI-powered attacks

Why is AI becoming essential for cybersecurity? Because every day, in fact every second, malicious actors are using artificial intelligence to widen the scope and speed of their attack methods.

For one thing, as Adam Meyers, senior vice president at CrowdStrike, told VentureBeat in a recent interview, “The adversary is getting 10 to 14 minutes faster every year. As their breakout times shrink, defenders have to react even faster — detecting, investigating and stopping threats before they spread. This is the game of speed.”

Meanwhile, Gartner wrote in its recent study, Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Preemptive Cybersecurity, that “[m]alicious actors are exploiting generative AI to launch attacks at machine speed. Organizations can no longer afford to wait for a breach to be detected before taking action. It has become crucial to anticipate potential attacks and prioritize preemptive mitigation measures with predictive analysis.”

And for its part, Darktrace’s latest threat ...