Summary

Aragon Research releases its first Market Insights Guide covering the use of artificial intelligence solutions in the cybersecurity market. This Research Note covers 21 major technology providers using AI in their solutions that are making an impact in this market.

Introduction

Enterprise security software is quickly evolving to address new and emerging threats in the digital landscape. No longer are simplistic signature matching tools sufficient to protect the enterprise as hackers are using increasingly powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to create highly sophisticated methods of attack. To combat this, many of the current enterprise security software offerings are incorporating advanced AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to identify and remediate threats more effectively.

Cybercriminals are using AI to rapidly explore and identify potential security vulnerabilities in a target environment, and once vulnerabilities are identified, to perform automated attacks to exploit these vulnerabilities. Additionally, hackers are using AI to create more sophisticated and evasive malware that can observe the behavior of security software and adapt its attack to evade detection. AI is also being used to analyze potential victims’ online behaviors to create highly targeted and very convincing social engineering attacks.