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Cybersecurity Is Changing: Is the Experience

Positive or Negative?

By Dotan Nahum, Head of Developer-First Security, Check Point Software Technologies

Cybersecurity is Changing: Is the Experience Positive or Negative?

Unfortunately, cybersecurity and cybercrime represent the age-old Hollywood trope famously conjured
up in the Batman franchise: bad guys and good guys need one another to survive. Whether cybersecurity
has changed is no question – and cybercrime has clearly kept pace. How it’s changed, on the other hand,
is an evergreen debate, as we’ll explore in this article.

First, the Good…

Thanks to the ultra-accessible ChatGPT, ‘AI’ is the buzzword defining 2023 so far. AI and ML have
created immense innovation in cybersecurity, as algorithms can detect patterns in enormous amounts of
data to predict and monitor threats. Moreover, automating repetitive tasks frees up time for cybersecurity

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