The rise of Artificial Intelligence can produce a lot of potential benefits in cybersecurity, such as having increased efficiency, increased threat protection, predictive analytics, enhanced authentication, and reduction of human error. The benefit of having increased efficiency will enable AI to be able to automate repetitive tasks, this will essentially enable businesses and companies to be able to operate faster and be efficient at the same time. This will allow workers/employees to have more “freedom” for more complex and creative tasks, increasing productivity in cyberspace and combating cyber threats. With the massive number of advancements occurring with Artificial Intelligence, we can also see the potential benefit of having increased threat protection. Artificial Intelligence will be able to detect threats in real-time faster than humans as well with few errors or missed possible threats. Another benefit to mention from Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity is that it will be able to predict future attacks that could occur by analyzing trends and patterns. Thus, this would allow companies to be able to strengthen their security and defend themselves from possible attacks. Enhanced Authentication will allow easier and faster login speeds with it also being higher in security with AI-powered technology. Lastly, with Artificial Intelligence in cybersecurity, there will be less human error as the AI will be able to reduce this by providing automated assistance and monitoring if there are any mistakes present. Remember, most cyber breaches that have occurred have resulted from human error. “Security teams have been using AI to detect vulnerabilities and generate threat alerts for years, but generative AI takes this to another level,” says Sam King, chief executive of security group Veracode” (Murphy, 2024).
