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What Impact Does Artificial Intelligence Have on Network Security?
In the first half of 2020, the globalized telecommuting caused by the epidemic further magnified the threat from “human loopholes”, and the market’s demand for security awareness services also began to grow rapidly.
Artificial intelligence (AI) may bring new possibilities for network security threat protection.
Poison——man-made loophole
In the network security defense system of modern enterprises, personnel are the “vulnerabilities” that hackers are easiest to break through and exploit, and employees are still the biggest security threat to network attacks.
According to a report by Tessian, 33% of employees in the United States and the United Kingdom made security mistakes at work, posing cyber security or data security threats to themselves or their company.
When asked what type of mistakes they made, a quarter of employees admitted to clicking on links in phishing emails at work.
In addition to clicking on malicious links, 58% of employees also admitted to sending work emails to the wrong recipients, and 17% of them were sent to the wrong outsiders.
This simple mistake can have serious consequences for individuals and companies, and they must report the incident…