Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a buzz word in the cyber world. It is still a developing science in multiple facets according to the challenges thrown by 21st century. Use of AI has become inseparable from human life. In this day and age one cannot imagine a world without AI as it has much significant impact on human life. The main objective of AI is to develop the technology based activities which represents the human knowledge in order to solve problems. Simply AI is study of how an individual think, work, learn and decide in any scenario of life, whether it may be related to problem solving or learning new things or thinking rationally or to arrive at a solution etc. AI is in every area of human life, naming a few it is into gaming, language processing, speech recognition, expert system, vision system, hand writing recognition, intelligence robots, financial transactions and what not, every activity of human life has become a subset of AI. In spite of numerous uses, AI can also used for destroying the human life, that is the reason human inference is required to monitor the AI activities. Cyber crimes has become quite common and become a daily news item. It is not just a problem faced in one country, it is across the world. Without strong security measures, AI is meaningless as it can be easily accessible by others. It has become a big threat for governments, banks, multinational companies through online attacks by hackers. Lot of individual and organizational data is exploited by hackers and it becomes a big threat to the cyber world. In this connection research in the area of AI and cyber security has gained more importance in the recent times and it is ever lasting also as it is a dynamic and sensitive issue linked to human life.