Artificial intelligence is defined as the ability of a computer program to learn, explain, and act like the human mind. With current technological advancements, it has become an integral part of cybersecurity best practices. It helps predict cyber attacks before they occur and supports the ability of organizations and individuals to develop proactive plans to protect against cyber attacks and mitigate their negative effects once they occur before they cause significant damage to individuals or the organization's IT infrastructure.
However, at the same time, cybersecurity challenges are increasing with the development of the field of artificial intelligence and its applications. The latter contributes to enhancing the capabilities of cyber attacks, making them more advanced, complex, and difficult to detect early. In other words, it is a double-edged sword that can be used to carry out extremely precise and dangerous threats, as well as raising the capabilities to confront those threats.
Given the National Initiative for Digital Safety's interest in keeping pace with the latest global developments in the cyber field, large spaces are devoted to raising awareness of the concept of artificial intelligence as an advanced and extremely dangerous technological tool used to develop and reduce the method and tools of cyber attacks on individuals and institutions at the same time. The awareness content addresses how artificial intelligence enables the automation of the creation of algorithms to detect cybersecurity threats across a wide range of elements in the information technology network, including: Emails, websites visited, third-party apps, shared files and more.
The initiative's awareness content also demonstrates that AI applications can also be used to launch advanced, large-scale, and more complex cyber attacks than before. By helping to find system/network vulnerabilities and effectively exploit them to carry out the attack, without the ability to track or detect the perpetrator.
