37% of businesses are already employing AI technologies, and this figure is only growing. AI can help to reduce the heavy lifting and repetitive tasks in daily operations for your business to improve productivity and efficiency.
But, what does this mean for physical and cyber security?
Keep reading to learn how businesses are leveraging AI to adapt their business to the changing security climate and mitigate the increasing risks of data vulnerabilities.
How Businesses Are Leveraging AI For Cyber And Physical Securities
AI is revolutionizing productivity and efficiency in the cyber and physical security sphere. Here, we will discuss the benefits of different applications of AI in security. Consider which AI applications would benefit your security strategy.
Using AI In Security Through Automated Workflows
Automation frees up your security team's time and allows them to reduce the heavy lifting in their daily operations. Effective incident response in the modern security climate requires integrated workflows that create a cohesive and optimized strategy for your security teams.
Structured workflows are a crucial element in incident response - having clear, structured, and formalized incident response protocols can make your security team more productive. When it comes to incident response, AI helps reduce the number of repetitive tasks that your team must perform.
Artificial intelligence can help you utilize your security team's time more effectively and delegate tasks for more efficient daily operations. AI does this by creating automated incident response protocols for everyday security events, such as:
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Malware detection
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Email account takeover
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Password compromisation
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Unauthorized access attempts
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Physical security threat detection
By automating these workflows, you can reduce the burden of workflow creation for your security team, which could become repetitive. Tasks will be delegated automatically according to your preset protocols, and your security team can respond more quickly and effectively to these incidents. Incident tickets will be created and resolved according to your team's progress, and the system will automate ticket updates.
It's worth evaluating whether your company would benefit from using AI to automate your team's workflows and provide a better return on your physical and cyber security investments.
Using AI To Detect Anomalies In Security Data
AI assists in detecting anomalies in security data and finding vulnerabilities in your system using a granular approach. A granular approach helps to break down large tasks into smaller tasks delegated more effectively.
You can use AI to detect anomalies in your security data that could reveal vulnerabilities in your overall system. AI can analyze your security data to provide you with a score based on your system's vulnerabilities to better understand your system's efficacy in the modern security climate.
Since the security climate is constantly changing, systems need to be always updated based on current conditions. Not only does AI analyze the risk of certain aspects of your network, but it can also analyze these risks within the context of your system. So, for instance, if a vulnerability in your system is given a high CVE risk score, but is hosted on an isolated platform, it will pose little risk to your system overall. AI can assess these vulnerabilities in line with your overall system to develop more accurate risk scores for your entire system.
Using AI To Predict Security Breaches
Integrating your keyless front door entry system and surveillance solution are key when implementing cyber and physical securities in your business. You need to protect your building and the digital assets housed within it. Access control ensures that your facility is only accessible to authorized parties. In contrast, surveillance cameras serve to deter crime and provide evidence if a crime occurs on your property.
However, did you know that your physical security technology can be enhanced using AI to predict security breaches?
You can enhance your security system to help your security staff prevent security incidents from occurring, rather than simply providing evidence once a breach has already happened.
Your security team will likely be unable to monitor the video feed to detect security events consistently. They may have other duties to oversee, or there may be too many cameras to observe simultaneously. You can implement AI to analyze your security camera data and detect potential security threats, triggering an alert. Once your security team is notified of the potential threat, they can proceed to intervene and potentially prevent a crime from occurring on your property. Without AI, your security team will likely miss these critical security events.
AI helps to ensure that the data from your access control system is analyzed and will trigger alerts when abnormal data is detected. If your AI provides alerts when anomalous data occurs, your business can use its physical security tools more effectively.
Summary
If you're considering how to optimize your current security system and keep up with the increase in data vulnerabilities - then AI might be the solution. You can apply AI to different facets of your business, such as automated workflows, video surveillance, and vulnerability detection. To improve efficiency in these areas and streamline daily operations, consider investing in AI solutions.
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