AI and your Cyber Security

This article by Oli Buckley, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of East Anglia and Jason Nurse, Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Kent takes a balanced look at how AI is starting to help threat actors create more believable attacks.

Cybercriminals are creating their own AI chatbots to support hacking and scam users (theconversation.com)

It was obvious though, ordinary people are suing AI to find the next movie they may like or to help get ideas for their next report – crooks are using it to steal our money and privacy.

The other side of this argument is that the good guys are also using AI to combat the threat actors. The cyber security experts manning our Security Operations Centre use both AI and machine learning to protect our clients from attack.

Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles

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