Artificial intelligence (AI) enables machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, including making decisions, recognizing human speech, perceiving visual elements, and translating languages. AI uses training data to comprehend context and determine how to respond or react in different situations.

Artificial intelligence in cybersecurity is increasingly critical to protecting online systems from attacks by cyber criminals and unauthorized access attempts. If used correctly, AI systems can be trained to enable automatic cyber threat detection, generate alerts, identify new strands of malware, and protect businesses’ sensitive data.

Benefits of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity include leveraging AI techniques—such as deep learning, machine learning (ML), knowledge representation and reasoning, and natural language processing—for a more automated and intelligent cyber defense.

In this way, organizations can discover and mitigate the thousands of cyber events that they can come across daily.