Protect your business from AI-powered security threats

The rise of AI presents business-threatening cybersecurity challenges. Davey Winder explores the dangers – and how to defend against them

In the past, whenever artificial intelligence came up in the context of computer security, the discussion would tend to focus on the so-called Skynet scenario: the “machines are taking over” stuff from the Terminator films. Now AI is an everyday reality, and Judgment Day hasn’t (so far) come to pass. What we are seeing, however, is a new wave of insidious and widespread AI-powered threats. Every business needs to be aware of how the new technologies make online exploits more dangerous than ever, and even open up new vectors of attack. ■ Phishing and phakes One of the most powerful applications of AI is in the arena of phishing. Hitherto, that term has mostly referred to dodgy emails that appear to come from a legitimate source, but once you add…

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