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Analysing the trends encompassing and influencing the use of AI in cybersecurity to better understand potential cybersecurity futures and their threats, and to shape a more secure society. The work contributed to ENISA’s overarching efforts to define a path and a vision for cybersecurity research and innovation in Europe.
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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access applications and services will tend to be ubiquitous and improve further (eg. specialised apps rather than SMS, which are not encrypted). Many...
AI systems are increasingly being used to find and exploit vulnerabilities. A fully fledged use of AI for cybercrime would render human cybersecurity useless, as such attacks could be performed at...
The transition from narrow AI to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) will pose great dangers if not done in the right way. It is incredibly challenging to understand the inner workings of an AI...
Data privacy and cybersecurity are getting prioritised both internally in companies and by regulators. This adds pressure for companies' security management and talent, especially because they...
Several distinct trends all point to an increased use of AI in cybersecurity. Recent breakthroughs in AI capabilities and the fast pace in which new ones are developed are only the enablers of...
The fast adoption of IoT, remote working, on-demand access to cloud, connected automobiles, hand devises, and any other smart devises dramatically increase the digital attack surface area, namely...
As supply chains tend to get smarter, the increasing use of IoT automation increase the intersection between the cyber and physical worlds, making these supply chains more vulnerable to...
Rise in ransomware attacks, particularly targeted ransomware attacks: a larger pool of potential “attacked” facilitates hackers' work and enables them to select the most cost-effective...
The number of organisations that use IoT devices with on-board analytics capabilities, edge computing, is rising rapidly. Carrying out the computing as close as possible to the source of the data...
Increased demand for cybersecurity professionals produces larger shortages in talent and expertise to help companies to keep up with increasing cybersecurity challenges. These challenges increase...
Social engineering and phishing attacks are getting smarter, more sophisticated, and more widespread. Particularly, they are highly localized, personalized, and geo-targeted; and with the help of...
Tendency to move away from the paradigm of "trusted networks" (like corporate networks where everybody in the company is on) to an identity-based authentication one, where users must authenticate...
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