Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity: Use Cases and Country Perspective

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the technologies that can make cybersecurity more effective. AI methods can already help analyse and process a large number of security-relevant events and detect malicious code, malicious users, attacks, and security anomalies faster and more efficiently. However, many organisations are still unaware of all the opportunities AI methods offer for cybersecurity and are lagging in their adoption. Several challenges in developing and using AI-based cybersecurity solutions also exist at the organisational and national levels. This paper presents the different ways of application of AI for cybersecurity and discusses the status and challenges in this area in Slovenia and the European Union. Based on the review of the situation, short-, medium- and long-term measures are proposed to improve the country’s capacity to develop and deploy new AI-based security solutions. The analysis and proposed actions are useful not only for the country addressed, but for any country facing similar challenges.