Safety, Security, Privacy & Prompts: Cyber Resilience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
What does AI mean for cyber security?
The security of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is an ever-evolving field, with state-of-the-art continually evolving at pace as AI is applied to a wider range of sectors and application domains. AI provides opportunities to both adversaries and defenders. It additionally introduces new risks to business processes and data security, and to safety when used in cyber physical systems such as autonomous vehicles. The exponential adoption and impact of AI across all sectors and technologies is pushing AI further up global regulatory agendas, seeking to gain a handle on the security, safety and ethics challenges associated with AI use
These new challenges must be considered when designing a security strategy for the development or use of AI, ensuring that users can reap the benefits that AI brings whilst managing risk to acceptable levels.
Risk management processes and policies must be adapted and updated to ensure that employees are aware of their responsibilities in the face of these newly available and tempting tools, and that the new risks posed by widespread adoption of AI are understood, communicated and appropriately mitigated. NCC Group has released this whitepaper to assist those wishing to better understand how AI applies to cyber security. The paper provides high-level summaries of how AI can be used by both cyber professionals and adversaries, the risks AI systems are exposed to, safety, privacy and ethics concerns and how the regulatory landscape is evolving to meet these challenges. For the interested reader we have also included sections on AI terminology and technologies and a summary of the research NCC Group has published in this space. We hope this information will be useful to security professionals and senior leaders seeking an introduction to the field of AI and cyber security, helping to understand the emerging risks and threats in this domain and how they might affect organisations. We hope the paper is also useful to developers looking to understand cyber security use cases for AI.
In this whitepaper
- We provide an overview of the technologies underpinning AI, describe in further detail the general positive and negative AI use cases and impacts before diving into specific cyber security use cases for AI.
- We then cover cyber threats to AI-based systems and present a view on the emerging global AI regulatory environment and what this means for organisations seeking to leverage AI.
- We conclude with recommendations for safe, secure, and compliant use of AI.
You'll gain knowledge from leading resources around the world, including our own primary research, and leave with a better understanding of the risks and benefits for your organization. Find critical insights into the evolving world of artificial intelligence security from offensive and defensive perspectives. As regulations and legislation are introduced by governments around the world, our experts keep you updated on the latest news.
Access and download the full report from NCC group here.