Introduction: AI Friend and Foe
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already significantly impacted business, with greater impacts for efficiency and productivity predicted as AI quickly becomes more widely integrated. In truth, with business adoption of AI reaching 72 percent in 2024, it already has.1&2 Overall, it’s estimated that AI will contribute a 21 percent net increase to the United States GDP by 2030.3 As more companies and consumers adopt AI in their operations and daily lives, there will be an accompanying increase in the risks and benefits, both known and unknown, that this technology will bring to companies and their cybersecurity. Businesses’ rapid adoption of AI introduces new risks alongside its benefits to innovation and productivity, suggesting that AI, like any other enterprise risk, needs to be overseen and governed at the board level.
When applied to a company’s cybersecurity program, AI can enhance capabilities in areas like automatic cyber threat detection, alert generation, malware identification, and data protection.4&5 AI’s enhanced data analysis capabilities can significantly reduce the signal-to-noise ratio among log data coming into the security operations center—reducing false positives and quickly directing the security team’s attention toward the most important and critical threats. AI also has the potential to help predict weaknesses and assist security teams in making changes to prevent the breach in the first place. This capability allows companies to “get left of theft,” thereby making it much harder for the attackers to succeed. Overall, AI, when applied correctly, can be a force multiplier to corporate cybersecurity teams, strengthening a business’s defense systems while increasing efficiency, productivity, and profit in business operations.
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