Cyber Magazine September 2023 | Page 126

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that will help IT teams to manage response mechanisms for each threat the business faces .”
Using AI to enhance cybersecurity AI can be used to boost cybersecurity in a number of ways , comments Kunal Purohit , Chief Digital Services Officer at Tech Mahindra , enhancing threat detection , malware analysis , vulnerability assessment , automated response , data augmentation , adaptive defence strategies , and user behaviour analysis .
“ AI enables more proactive and effective defence measures against evolving cyber threats ,” he explains . “ And , with the advent of Generative AI , it is changing the game for cybersecurity , analysing massive quantities of risk data to speed response times and augment under-resourced security operations . It has massive potential to transform cybersecurity , including cloud , device , and even home security systems . By creating predictive models , generating simulated environments , and analysing large volumes of data , generative AI can help identify and respond to threats before they cause harm .”
As Damien Duff , Senior Machine Learning Consultant at Daemon , explains , AI can be
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