Security News > 2023 > June > Tackling the cyber skills gap with AI

It's an open secret where this might be heading; AI will eventually become a primary cybersecurity system that not only helps out but performs threat detection and response without human intervention.

AI will become cybersecurity system, taking over threat triage in a way that matches or even surpasses what human SOC teams can do.

Today, what is consuming skills is as much a huge rise in cybersecurity complexity, argues Darktrace Director of Enterprise Security, Asia Pacific and Japan, Tony Jarvis.

Where does Jarvis see Darktrace's AI going in terms of autonomous decision making and is the ability to dispense human decision making imminent? Currently there are three modes; detect-only mode, which recommends actions to be taken manually but will not request permission to go out and action those recommendations itself, human confirmation mode, where the system will offer to fix a threat while allowing a human to OK a decision, and a fully autonomous mode where the AI works independently.

Autonomous AI will also see higher take up in smaller organizations without cybersecurity headcount and which struggle to triage advanced threats.

"But we're facing AI threats and the only way we can keep up is AI cybersecurity."

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