What Is AI Threat Detection?

AI threat detection is the use of artificial intelligence software to identify any known markers of a cyber threat. By identifying these signals as early as possible, businesses can rapidly neutralize a threat and protect their company assets from malicious actors.

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For decades, threat detection has mainly worked by using a signature-based system for detecting threats. Known threats are cataloged by industry professionals and shared in public databases like the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. These frameworks would show businesses the exact signatures to look out for, allowing them to then identify attacks in their early stages by recognizing elements of their signature.

Several core technologies, like Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions, used signature identification to locate threats. If one of these tools detected a signature commonly associated with a threat vector, they would alert the cybersecurity team and begin to isolate the threat.

But with the arrival of AI, threats can now rapidly morph, obfuscating their signatures and challenging EDR and XDR solutions. The integration of AI tools into the cybersecurity stack that uses behavioral analysis, pattern tracing, and anomaly detection helps to identify these threats, even in zero day scenarios.

To keep up with the changing form attacks can take, more businesses than ever are turning to AI solutions to augment their existing security controls.

AI threat detection uses a range of different technologies in tandem to identify distinct threats. Some components will scan for known attack vectors, like in earlier EDR and XDR solutions. Other components will use AI components to learn from public attack data and understand new threat vectors in real time.

Here are some of the main technologies that enable AI threat detection :

Malicious actors are increasingly using artificial intelligence to improve their attacks and make threat vectors more challenging to detect. AI threat detection is the direct answer to these evolving threats, providing an around-the-clock method of identifying and preventing these attacks from impacting your business.

There are a number of benefits of AI threat detection:

Artificial intelligence tools can detect any existing threat that other cybersecurity defense tools monitor for. This means that classic threats like phishing and spear-phishing attacks, as well as common types of malware and DDoS attacks, are all recognized by AI.

Alongside the more standard cyber threats, AI can also detect:

Artificial intelligence tools aren’t a complete infrastructural shift in the cybersecurity world. On the contrary, they typically support existing tools and integrate where possible to streamline your security architecture.

Here are the steps you should follow to successfully integrate AI into your existing cybersecurity posture:

Monitor Performance and Improve: Continually monitor your AI cybersecurity models and feed them additional data to improve their performance. Where possible, integrate available threat intelligence data to increase the scope of your AI model. Always include a human-in-the-loop during these processes to oversee your AI system and ensure it acts as expected.

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