‘Defensive AI will keep firms a step ahead of threat actors’

A study by Darktrace reveals that 88% of security leaders in organisations anticipate the inevitability of offensive AI and over 80% of cybersecurity decision-makers agree that organisations need advanced cybersecurity defenses to tackle offensive AI threats. In this interview, Vaibhav Tare, chief information security officer, Fulcrum Digital, tells Alokananda Chakraborty how organisations can deploy artificial intelligence to enhance their threat detection capabilities. Edited excerpts.

Businesses have relied on AI to fight fraud and financial crime for decades. What’s this recent hullabaloo around defensive AI?