Artificial intelligence has been unleashed on the earth. While its energy is obvious, its full potential to wreak havoc is still unknown. Cyber-criminals have some issues about AI running riot, because conflict furthers their goals. While they start AI-fueled lightning attacks, enterprises must tread carefully, aiming to listen to the increasing threats without mistakenly creating new vulnerabilities that compound their risk. It has become clear that whether AI works as a hero or villain depends largely on the effectiveness of the methods underpinning its use.
AI-armed adversaries are relentless
In the security world, the need to keep pace with intruders has led to an unsustainable situation: convoluted interfaces connecting dozens of solutions strung up to counteract the latest threats. Individuals in a new IBM study used 83 distinct protection solutions from 29 vendors, on average. At best, this approach results in problems that slow down business processes and enhance costs, placing companies at a competitive disadvantage. At worst, it creates risks that AI-savvy adversaries can abuse with potentially disastrous consequences.
The mixture of increasingly sophisticated episodes and quickly mounting defense costs is unsustainable because there’s no end to it. AI has equipped thieves not only with the ability to be more impressive and pernicious, but also to persist continuously. Business mechanisms are in danger of collapsing from their own difficulty.
There is a way to fight back against the AI-equipped cyber-hordes, however, and it offers corporations relief from constantly having to respond to the latest unpleasant tactics. The AI beast can be neutralized by the AI hero that replaces fragmentation with platformization: an agile, efficient, powerful mechanism that breeds confidence in business transactions and ultimately drives growth.
Platformized security provides a competitive edge
Strategically applying platformization to cybersecurity gives enterprise defenders an edge against attackers in the capabilities race. Based on the IBM survey results, platformization:
- Ramps up response times. Organizations that were platformized took 72 fewer days to detect a security incident and 84 fewer days to contain one.
- Supercharges return on investment ( ROI ). Organizations that adopted a platformized approach experienced an average ROI of 101 % compared to 28 % for those that had not yet embraced platformization, according to the survey.  ,
- Enhances return on security investment ( ROSI). Platformized organizations enjoyed an average ROSI of 116 % compared to 32 % for those that had not yet embraced platformization.  ,
Platformization enables AI to truly be a business driver. It aligns infrastructures with operations and pools data to provide better visibility across the enterprise. It clarifies processes and enhances operational efficiencies. Platformization drives innovation, prioritizes security as a core business requirement, and makes it a true competitive advantage.
Security was critically important before AI’s incursion onto the enterprise landscape. Now it’s vital for forward-thinking organizations to boldly embrace an approach that leverages AI as the driver of modern cybersecurity strategies. Platformization enables enterprises to build a unified defense structure capable of fending off AI-powered attacks today and absorbing AI-fueled innovations into the future.