AI as a threat and opportunity for IT security
IT security is one of the areas that is currently being changed by AI. On the one hand, AI helps criminals make attacks more efficient, sophisticated, scalable and evade detection. On the other hand, security departments and law enforcement agencies receive new tools to detect and attribute illegal activities more effectively. Cisco Talos analyzed the current state of this race and identified the following trends: Increasing danger Thanks to AI, cybercriminals require fewer and fewer people and knowledge for attacks and software development. This both lowers barriers to entry, so that the number of criminals and attacks increases, and...