FEATURE: TRENDS IN CYBERSECURITY SOLUTIONS
need security solutions that unify threat protection, posture management, and user education to identify potential threats, like phishing, malicious code, and social engineering attacks.
Generative AI is a defining capability in today’ s cybersecurity architecture, with its strength tied directly to data quality – AI is only as effective as the data it learns from. A few years ago, language and cultural barriers shielded Arabic-speaking regions. Now, advanced language models let attackers craft convincing, multilingual phishing emails. Our
research shows that in 2024, the UAE saw a 29 % rise in BEC attacks.
Simultaneously, organisations are grappling with fragmented data scattered across multi-cloud environments and applications, making visibility difficult. As employees use Generative AI tools, the risk of data leakage grows, and organisational data leakage is a serious concern.
Chester Wisniewski, Field CISO, Sophos
AI will not be a major fix for any deep, complex problems, but it will help analysts perform their jobs more efficiently and automate away much of the boring work involved in triage and analysis.
We are seeing the most progress in process automation, translation from human speak to code speak, and alert management and triage. Many SOCs receive thousands of alerts a day and by using AI to assist with this triage we can address the problem of alert fatigue that many analysts face.
Instead of writing complicated SQL queries, analysts can now ask AI to help build the query using human language to get answers faster when doing investigations.
As AI adoption increases, having skills in knowing how to ask the right questions, known as prompt engineering, is of increasing importance. Automation is the hallmark of any successful security program, so skills in scripting, process engineering, and AI are all required in all enterprise environments.
Maher Jadallah, Vice President, Middle East and North Africa, Tenable
Innovation within cybersecurity solutions will see the power and speed of Generative AI, such as Google Vertex AI, OpenAI GPT-4, LangChain and many
others, harnessed to return new intelligent information in minutes. Generative AI offers the promise to be a game changer in this regard for cyber defenders, helping them to break down silos, correlating data from multiple cybersecurity point solutions and using the data to create something new.
This data amalgamation can inform security teams as they search for patterns, explain what is identified in the simplest language possible, which all helps to decide what actions to take to reduce cyber risk.
Generative AI is enabling security professionals to better interact with security data. Embedded within solutions, Generative AI makes it possible to automate detection and labelling to continuously identify, prioritise and manage risk for all resources, services and data. This takes security from reactive to proactive to reduce risk across evolving attack surfaces. p
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