From the course: Cybersecurity Awareness: AI
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AI's impact on cybersecurity
From the course: Cybersecurity Awareness: AI
AI's impact on cybersecurity
- Let's say you walk into the office or sign into work and there's mayhem. Someone has been posing as you all morning, making phone calls, emailing clients and coworkers, even Slacking your teammates like you would. Now your boss is pinging you about a financial request you authorized, but it wasn't you. This isn't science fiction. It's a reality that organizations are grappling with right now, thanks to artificial intelligence. According to TechTarget, "Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems." Basically, AI emulates human reasoning and decision-making in order to help us accelerate, well, everything. It can analyze large amounts of information to identify patterns, predict things, and even generate new content that mimics what it's learned. Something that would take a human being hours now takes seconds. As of right now, the world is experiencing a fundamental shift. AI has now been used to diagnose…