Next Thursday, October 29th at 5:00 PM we will be holding a webinar on artificial intelligence applied to cybersecurity. 

This online event will begin by identifying the cyber threats facing Spanish businesses. It will then analyze how companies can detect cyber threats in real time and how to defend against a cyberattack before it triggers a crisis. Finally, we will assess the use of artificial intelligence as a cybersecurity tool across all organizational environments.

Join us to discover the contribution that artificial intelligence is making to cybersecurity today!

 

Cybersecurity is a new challenge for businesses

Currently in Spain, only 141% of companies have a robust cybersecurity infrastructure, and this is because only 38% of business owners consider the risk of suffering a cyberattack. (Hiscox Cyber Preparedness Report 2020).

However, the market speaks for itself. According to IBM data, cyberattacks have increased by 125% in Europe and by 40% globally.

Cybercriminals are targeting the 72% of Spanish companies that lack the necessary security measures to manage their online operations in a completely technological era.

The figures show that the pandemic has made not only individuals more vulnerable, but also businesses. Today, these businesses face a significant increase in cyber threats.

The presence of a dark and illicit world is evident in the cyber environment, putting companies and their assets at risk.

Investing in cybersecurity makes sense, considering that Spanish companies allocate around 14.931% of their IT budget to cybersecurity and over 301% to recovering from cyber incidents. This doesn't even take into account that companies report average losses of around €80,000 after a cyberattack, and many are forced to close.

"Never underestimate the price of insecurity. 'Imprudence often precedes calamity.' Appian." 

Awakening to a new reality

Given the current situation, there are companies that are working hard to equip the field of cybersecurity with artificial intelligence.

This initiative responds to the need for companies to defend themselves against a new and more aggressive generation of cyberattacks.

Advances in cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, and conversational interface technologies have generated a growing number of end-user devices, networks, and user interfaces.

We confirmed this through executives, who stated that their cybersecurity analysts are overwhelmed by the immense volume of information they must monitor. Furthermore, there is an increase in the number of incidents and the type of automated attacks, which are evolving rapidly and preventing them from being neutralized by traditional response systems.

All signs point to organizations facing an urgent need to expand and continuously improve their cybersecurity systems. Because it's better to be safe than sorry!

Companies are aware that they cannot entrust their future to solutions that are unable to react immediately to the constant and growing attacks that threaten them.

"More than 4,000 organizations worldwide acknowledge that they could not respond to powerful threats without artificial intelligence. Nacho García." 

Artificial intelligence at the service of cybersecurity

In this sense, artificial intelligence has much to offer to cybersecurity, as it provides applications that learn the normal activity pattern of a company, allowing it to detect possible deviations that indicate the presence of a threat, whether known or unknown, internal or external, subtle or violent.

The most interesting aspect of artificial intelligence is its self-learning capability. In other words, it's an unsupervised, automatic learning process that analyzes data flows and workloads in the cloud through SaaS (Software as a Service) applications.

Artificial intelligence offers the advantage of analyzing massive amounts of risk data, with the aim of speeding up response times and increasing security operations when resources are insufficient.

Based on everything discussed above, we can conclude that artificial intelligence and cybersecurity have become the great allies of 21st-century companies.

Artificial intelligence is not a matter of the future, but of the present. It can be applied to businesses through cybersecurity and is absolutely affordable, cost-effective, and easy to implement.

DarkTrace, a world leader in artificial intelligence for cybersecurity, will be joining us for the webinar on October 29, 2020. They are also pioneers in applying the workings of the human immune system to enterprise cybersecurity, so we want to I invite you to participate!