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AI Is the Answer To Modern Cybersecurity Threats

Why embracing AI solutions is key to combatting evolving cyber threats across many sectors.

By Ralph Chammah, CEO, OwlGaze

With cyber threats becoming increasingly diverse in how they strategically cripple organisations, the
cybersecurity landscape is under increasing pressure to bolster its technology and defence methods.
Cyber-attacks have only become more frequent year-on-year, with the costs to an unprepared business
only increasing with them. Data breaches can harm not only your organisation’s wallet but also your
reputation. It is therefore imperative that businesses branch out when it comes to data protection, and AI
could indeed be the answer cyber operatives need to detect and prevent threats before they can do any
damage.

No industry is safe

Cyber-attacks are not limited to one sector. As we have witnessed throughout this year, no industry is
safe. In the healthcare industry alone, doctors continue to struggle to cope with the fallout of a major
ransomware attack on NHS software supplier, Advanced, which took place in early August. Cyber actors
target hospitals and healthcare providers increasingly to access sensitive patient data, leading to critical
consequences for patients, the NHS and other national health systems globally. Ransomware attacks
can be particularly deadly – France suffered an attack on the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF)

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