6- The Power of AI in Cybersecurity: A Simple Guide

Emrah Alpaslan
Operations Research Bit
2 min readJan 3, 2024

In our digital age, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is like a superhero for keeping our online world safe from bad actors. Let’s take a look at how AI teams up with cybersecurity to protect us and the challenges they face.

How AI Helps Keep Us Safe:

1. Spotting Cyber Baddies:

  • AI can quickly find unusual activities in tons of data, helping it catch cyber threats that might sneak past regular security.

2. Learning from Behavior:

  • AI is smart! It learns what normal behavior looks like and can raise a red flag when something seems off, like a digital superhero’s intuition.

3. Automatic Responses:

  • When trouble comes knocking, AI doesn’t need a human to tell it what to do. It can take action on its own to stop cyber baddies in their tracks.

Challenges for AI and Cybersecurity Sidekicks:

1. Tricky Tricks from Cyber Baddies:

  • The bad guys try to fool AI with sneaky tricks. It’s like a game of hide-and-seek where the hiders are really good at hiding!

2. Fairness Matters:

  • Sometimes, AI might not play fair because it learned from not-so-fair data. We need to make sure it’s fair for everyone.

3. Finding the Right Balance:

  • While AI is super helpful, we can’t let it do everything alone. Humans need to keep an eye out too to make sure everything is A-OK.

In a nutshell, AI and cybersecurity make a dream team, but they also face challenges. As we use AI for good, let’s remember to play fair and keep our digital world safe and sound.

Stay tuned for more easy-to-understand tech tales!

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Emrah Alpaslan
Operations Research Bit

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