"Artificial Intelligence Could Accelerate Breach Notification Time, Expert Says"

Dr. Frederic Lemieux, faculty director and professor of the practice for applied intelligence at Georgetown University, has brought further attention to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity to increase the speed of data breach notifications. Lemieux suggested that increasingly efficient pattern recognition is helping companies detect anomalies in large pools of data. AI is helping to point out possible security issues to human analysts, such as an employee logging on to sensitive networks at odd hours, an email attachment including malicious data, and other unusual behavior. Cybersecurity costs are prohibitive, and companies are experiencing situations where the average cost of a data breach is about $8 million in the US. The time to discover a data breach can go up to 28 days, with the average number of days for containment being 80, thus increasing the appeal for AI solutions. Security professionals are also using AI tools for asset inventories to help highlight areas of a company that are vulnerable to digital threats. This article continues to discuss how AI tools are helping security professionals improve the cybersecurity of their companies.

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