AI to bolster security
2023-10-25![AI to bolster security AI to bolster security](https://varindia.com/storage/news/uploads/2018/02/6538acbfd5140.jpg)
Future of security is something we need to look at with a different lens altogether. Globally, technology is something which is changing fast. Rapid changes because of AI, because of Gen AI, because of cloud getting spread across, technology is coming to the personal domain. Technology is coming to the domains where it was not there earlier.
Cyber security is one of the most pressing and challenging issues, and opportunities in today's time. As per data from CERT-In, there were 13.91 lakh cyber security incidents reported in 2022.
In fact, in one of the most recently published Digital Defense Report, 2023, it was pointed out that India is one of the top three most targeted countries in APAC by nation state actors.
What is also happening is, along with the way AI can aid us towards becoming a lot more predictive, lot more productive, efficient, automated, attacks are quickly becoming more automated as well, through AI assisted tools, increasing exponentially.
The number of password attacks that Microsoft detects has increased more than ten-fold compared to what we were seeing in the same period, in 2022, from around 3 billion per month to about 30 billion now. This translates to about 4000 password attacks that we're seeing per second.
This also puts the small and medium businesses at a higher risk, with about 82% of the ransomware attacks targeting small and medium businesses right now. This really brings us to the core of the thing that when you think about the brand of the organization - the reputational, operational, legal, security risks - everything can be really high, if the cyber security risks are neglected.
With signals across the country, which are signalling with highest need going across for every organization, is very important.
Now, with all those changes, the overall trust on online systems is getting questioned now. There are a lot of questions on how we can trust certain systems, certain applications, how we can safeguard our own personal data.
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