SINGAPORE: Synthetic intelligence (AI) is a double-edged sword for cybersecurity, given its potential to anticipate potential threats and on the identical time give adversaries more tools to penetrate systems, stated a United States nationwide safety official.
“AI actually does deliver peril, but in addition promise within the space of cybersecurity,” stated Ms Anne Neuberger, deputy nationwide safety advisor for cyber and rising know-how at the USA Nationwide Safety Council, on Wednesday (Oct 18). The council is the US president’s principal discussion board for nationwide safety and international coverage choice making.
AI might assist the council extra shortly discover anomalous exercise, she instructed CNA on the sidelines of the Singapore Worldwide Cyber Week held from Monday to Thursday.
“We see AI probably assist us each generate safer code, discover vulnerabilities in code and speed up improvement of patches,” she stated.