Exploring AI in Cyber Security

With the ever evolving technology, there has been an increase in the utilization of IoT, cloud and mobile based applications, resulting in the generation of huge amounts of data. And with this surplus data, we are witnessing a tremendous rise in the criminal fracas that have rerouted to a more unconventional and sophisticated levels than ever before. Incidences such as callousness in segregating password for the high sensitivity information, weak passwords or leaving the access credentials to the hackers’ avail, further adds on to the unfortunate lacunae in cyber security. Further adding to the shortfall, cyber-attacks have not only gotten more creative and innovative with time but often render its opponents far from chasing the hackers who are in a constant look out to deactivate systems. And there comes AI: How can these concerns be addressed? Well, off many things that can be adopted, artificial intelligence is being widely explored to help keep up a pace with this menace. Now, w