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Cyber attacks have become a daily occurrence, almost expected in today’s risk-aware society, but what of the future? Tim Williams believes that we will be engaged in cyber warfare for the rest of our lives and the eventual outcomes will all come down to AI
HARVESTING AI FOR THE GOOD OF CYBER SECURITY IN THE UK W ho will be able to act the fastest? Who will form the most productive, behind-the-scenes and crossborder strategic alliances in order to facilitate an effective human impact on forward thinking to counter future cyber attacks? By maximising the application of artificial intelligence (AI), who can counter cyber terrorism by building the best mousetrap?
LIVING WITH AI AND FACING FACTS How do we define terrorism? It has to be considered in context with people’s lives: one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist; cyber terrorism is just one facet of attacks on persons or facilities that are perceived as aggressive and potentially terrorism.
As technology becomes ever more efficient and refined, AI will be helpful to identify millions of attempts to attack our networks - but what of the negative effect? AI has been in use to some degree for decades, starting with the missile and anti-missile programmes in the 1950s and ‘60s. In the 1970s, the Yom Kippur war between Israel and its Arab neighbours eventually resulted in Israel directing groups of some of the earliest drones towards enemy firepower, drawing out their location so Israeli bombers could subsequently take out the opposition. This trend will continue ad infinitum - attackers targeting specific military installations, law enforcement or intelligence communities. AI could conceivably, and E
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