Artificial Intelligence to Help Prevent Cyber Crimes

access_time June 26, 2019
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Internet technology has become all-pervasive and has clearly left its imprint in every sphere of human activity. Nevertheless, an effective regulation and control over this enormous power is not yet a reality. With over two billion users online, exercising an effective control over the online actions of such a vast population is rather difficult. It is no surprise then that, due to a lack of effective monitoring mechanism, security threats and cyber crimes have become all too common. Whether in the banking sector or in the financial sector or in the business sector, hackers have been successful in trespassing in to every form of digital security at ease. Researchers at Kaspersky labs have confirmed that cyber crimes and spywares will continue to increase and are likely to become major threats to all organizations in the years to come. A research by Google has confirmed that cyber- thieves have made at least $25 million from ransomware in the last two years. It is here that the role of artificial intelligence in tackling cyber security threats becomes all the more relevant and effective Artificial Intelligence Helping Fight Cyber Crimes And as cyber crimes are being committed at every level and in every corner of the world, an effective counter fight has begun and is being spearheaded with artificial intelligence. Every organization – both big and small and including startups are investing heavily in artificial intelligence systems to guard against security threats. With its ability to analyze large amount of data and at the shortest possible time, artificial intelligence systems can help cyber security experts identify all the potential threats. Let us look at the ways artificial intelligence systems could possibly help detect and eliminate hacking and all forms of cyber crimes Machine Learning Intelligent systems everywhere can improve their ability to identify and analyze security threats if they integrate machine learning capabilities in to it. Using algorithms that iteratively learn from data, machine learning gives computers the ability to learn and act without being explicitly programmed. Making use of research- driven data, artificial intelligence systems can detect impending cyber threats within the system and take evasive actions. Tracking Cyber Crimes Due to the ability of users to remain anonymous and unaccountable, internet has become a ground where fraud and spam can be committed with few becoming aware of it. It gives them a chance to commit their cyber crimes at ease, as tracking cyber criminals manually is rather difficult. But with the help of big data and analytics, artificial intelligence can track the source of cyber crime and evasive actions can be taken. Machine learning is also capable of predicting when a cyber crime is likely to take place. Artificial Intelligence Helps to Analyze Cyber Attacks Even with all precautions in place, cyber attacks could still occur as hackers are extremely clever and inventing various hacking methods to outdo security experts. It is then essential to analyze the manner in which the cyber attack has taken place and to plug the loopholes that may have caused the attack. It is an undeniable fact that artificial intelligence has helped enrich the capabilities of cyber security experts in battling cyber crimes. But the capabilities of artificial intelligence can also be put to a variety of uses by hackers as is being done by cyber security experts. Until such time as some revolutionary discovery emerges that fully eliminates every form of cyber crimes and cyber security threat, remaining eternally alert against cyber attacks is the need of the hour. The increased use of artificial intelligence will facilitate such an endeavor.

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