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This month’s Cybersecurity Buyer Intelligence Report is based on an online survey conducted in September 2024 among 192 security and IT leaders and executives, practitioners, administrators, and compliance professionals in North America from CRA’s Business Intelligence research panel. The objective of this study was to explore various topics related to organizations’ adoption and implementation of AI-based cybersecurity tools, including their concerns, benefits, and challenges. The survey also explored respondents’ opinions about the use of AI by threat actors.
From the Forward:
While organizations are prepared to adopt AI, they have no shortage of concerns. By and large, cybersecurity professionals are excited about AI. Most are either planning to integrate the tools into their cybersecurity strategy or are already operating AI tools in their environments.
The AI field brings with it a number of promising possibilities for network defenders. But there are plenty of concerns amongst cybersecurity operators. For starters, there is already a shortage of administrators well-versed in the use of AI tools, and there is skepticism amongst cybersecurity professionals that their organizations will be able to use AI security tools to their full potential. On top of that, there is the looming risk that new AI-enabled tools and services will not be able to properly integrate with legacy platforms, creating a compatibility nightmare. Add to this the looming threat of AI-enabled cyberattacks as cybercriminals make use of AI to create faster, more efficient attack tools, and cybersecurity vendors could find themselves in an AI arms race with threat actors.
These dynamics suggest that organizations will not only need to decide quickly on their AI security decisions, but once that decision is made, they will need to implement them clearly and precisely while properly equipping administrators with the knowledge needed to run these next-generation security platforms.
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