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Wipro published a report which provides fresh insights on how AI will be leveraged as part of defender stratagems as more organizations lock horns with sophisticated cyberattacks and become more resilient. Nearly half the organizations are expanding cognitive detection capabilities to tackle unknown attacks in their Security Operations Center.
The United Kingdom has announced £16.5 billion of new defence spending, some of which has gone towards a newly revealed National Cyber Force and some earmarked to create a Space Command and agency dedicated to AI. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's statement to the house about the new spending revealed that the nation has already created the Cyber Force. Intelligence agency GCHQ has provided a little detail on the National Cyber Force's operations, saying it will provide unified operational command for personnel from the Ministry of Defence, GCHQ, the Secret Intelligence Service, and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
Now, just as legitimate businesses use AI to disrupt key sectors, hackers are using AI to automate their attacks, driving new efficiencies into their operations. Using AI to automate these attacks gives them a virtual digital army of attackers, all operating at computer speed.
CloudVector announced the availability of CloudVector Enterprise Edition, which enhances its pioneering API discovery capability with AI-enabled monitoring and security functionality. Key features of CloudVector Enterprise Edition AI-enabled approach to API protection - CloudVector applies machine learning and deep learning to automate the continuous discovery of all APIs, monitoring of anomalies, and security enforcement.
Cyemptive Technologies cautioned entities to recognize the limitations of relying solely on detection based Artificial Intelligence for cyber protection and outlines the first reliable solution to address these limitations and provide actual preemptive cyber-attack prevention. According to Cyemptive, most companies have serious cyber problems even when deploying AI and behavioral detection technologies.
"Its true cloud technology puts Eagle Eye in a unique position to instantly deploy new analytics breakthroughs. Dean Drako's track record, proven with Eagle Eye and previously as founder of Barracuda Networks, speaks for itself." Eagle Eye Networks Cloud VMS. The Eagle Eye Cloud Video Management System is a smart cloud video surveillance solution, purpose-built to help businesses improve safety, security, operations, and customer service while saving money.
Despite highly publicized risks of data-sharing and AI, from facial recognition to political deepfakes, leadership at many organizations seems to be vastly underestimating the ethical challenges of the technology, NTT DATA Services reveals. Just 12% of executives and 15% of employees say they believe AI will collect consumer data in unethical ways, and only 13% of executives and 19% of employees say AI will discriminate against minority groups.
SlashNext announced the on-device AI mobile phishing defense for iOS and Android with natural language and link-based detection to protect users from the exponential increase in mobile-based SMS phishing attacks. Now SlashNext, customers and partners can benefit from the industry's fastest and most accurate, 2.0 mobile AI phishing defense, protecting users from all forms of phishing across all their communication channels - SMS, email, social networking, gaming, collaboration and search - without compromising user privacy or performance.
Let us briefly discuss two aspects: First, the wide use of open source software gave us insight into a vast quantity of source code changes and the reasoning behind them. We see tools like GPT-3 and their applications in source code being discussed widely.
BlackBerry has announced a new cybersecurity product that it says is the industry's first AI-powered unified endpoint security system. BlackBerry Cyber Suite consists of four tools that BlackBerry said makes it a preventative security tool, rather than just a detect-and-respond one.