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Exploring the Intersection of AI and Cyber Security: Opportunities and Challenges

Taimur Ijlal
5 min readApr 14, 2023

Its a brave new world for AI and Cybersecurity professionals

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AI seems to be here, there and everywhere in 2023. A quick glance at my Medium and Twitter feed shows every other topic to be about how ChatGPT or some other AI tool is going to change the world and so on.

It is necessary to separate the hype from the reality though and one area that AI is definitely going to have a huge impact is Cybersecurity

Despite being separate fields, AI and Cybersecurity are becoming increasingly intertwined and I thought it would be a good idea to go over some of the key opportunities and challenges that are now present in this new and every changing landscape.

Opportunities as AI and Cyber Security intersect

1 — Enhanced Threat Detection and Response

This is nothing new honestly as Cybersecurity products boasting the “powered by AI” label have been around for years

I had been initially skeptical given how many products I know had barely any machine learning capabilities but just over eager vendors pushing the new buzzword but recent years have shown a huge leap forward

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Taimur Ijlal
Taimur Ijlal

Written by Taimur Ijlal

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