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Leveraging the strengths of AI solutions

AI shines at process optimization, especially regarding repetitive, detail-oriented tasks. These include
ensuring best practices are maintained, detecting fraudulent activity, identifying system vulnerabilities,
and so on. Such applications can liberate CISOs to focus their attention where it truly matters. Effectively
overseeing defense lines on its own is not within the current capabilities of AI. Providers claiming
otherwise are misleading you.

Even if used correctly, an overreliance on AI can be dangerous. Without proper training, you run the risk
of merely getting generic AI guidance that has little practical value. In its current development, AI’s
propensity for errors without expert supervision can work backward, undermining already established
cybersecurity efforts. Each mistake must be identified, and the AI model must be retrained accordingly.
Integrating AI into a company’s cyber defense, therefore, demands constant vigilance. However, when
done right, it can achieve excellent results.

Despite AI’s impressive strides, the technology still requires a symbiotic relationship with human
expertise. For the foreseeable future, this partnership is indispensable in ensuring AI’s contributions are
both meaningful and precise. As of now, it is a technology that augments human skills. While the future
of AI in cybersecurity is very bright, we must proceed to tread carefully, ensuring that these digital
guardians are as dependable as they are revolutionary.

About the Author

Andrius Minkevicius is the co-founder and CISO at Cyber Upgrade. Before
launching Cyber Upgrade, he co-founded Paysolut, which made a successful
exit in 2021, when it was acquired by the global payment solutions provider
SumUp. Andrius has over a decade of experience building complex core
banking solutions. Now, using his robust expertise, Andrius is building top-tier
cyber security products to help businesses fortify their cyber frontlines. He can
be reached online at at our company website https://cyberupgrade.net/

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