What is AI-Enabled Security Management?
AI-enabled security management leverages the power of artificial intelligence to enhance security management. Emerging technologies — such as generative AI — are ideally suited to managing the common, repetitive tasks that currently overwhelm security teams. By shifting responsibility for alert triage, configuration monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and similar tasks to AI, an organization can increase the efficiency of its security team and improve its overall security posture.
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AI-enabled security management takes advantage of the power of GenAI to simplify and streamline security tasks. The AI-powered solution has access to an organization’s security data and infrastructure, and users can interact with it via plain English, asking questions or giving instructions that the system answers or implements.
AI-enabled security management solutions can be applied to a couple of major use cases, including:
- Security Administration: GenAI can be used to streamline common administrative tasks, such as configuration management, trouble ticket handling, security control implementation, and more. For example, an administrator could implement new firewall rules by stating the desired rule to the GenAI system, which would implement it in the appropriate system.
- Security Analysts: Security analysts can leverage an AI-enabled security management program to enhance incident detection, threat hunting, and playbook-based remediation. An analyst can ask the system questions to identify or drill down into a particular threat and request that the GenAI system author and execute a playbook for remediating it.
In general, AI-enabled security management takes advantage of the power of AI to improve efficiency and scalability. This allows security personnel to accomplish their tasks more quickly and correctly, reducing the overall risk that an organization faces.
Benefits of AI-Enabled Security Management
AI-enabled security management leverages emerging technology to enhance security operations. Some of the benefits that this can bring to the organization include the following:
- Improved Prevention and Response: AI can process large volumes of data and identify true threats faster than a human analyst. This enables the organization to more quickly respond to a potential threat, preventing the issue or minimizing the impact that it has on the organization.
- Increased Operational Efficiency: AI can automate tedious and repetitive tasks within the security operations center (SOC), such as alert triage or patch management. This enables human analysts to focus their time and energies on more strategic activities and enhances operational efficiency.
- Cost Savings: AI-enabled security management offers the potential to reduce an organization’s exposure to security incidents and improve operational efficiency in the SOC. Both of these can provide significant cost savings in the long term.
- Prevention of Novel Threats: AI-enabled security systems can identify anomalies in logs, network traffic, or user behavior. This enables them to detect and respond to novel attacks for which no signature or rule is available.
- Security Scalability: Many security teams are struggling to keep up with expanding IT infrastructures and an evolving cyber threat landscape, leading to ignored alerts, unpatched vulnerabilities, and missed detections. AI-enabled security management allows security to scale with an organization’s IT infrastructure.
- Simplified Compliance: AI can also help with every stage of an organization’s compliance management process. AI helps to reduce the organization’s exposure to attacks, minimizes the potential damage of security incidents, and can help security teams gather the data required to complete regulatory compliance reports.
Infinity Copilot - AI-Enabled Security Management
AI-enabled security management is the future of corporate cybersecurity and compliance programs. As the challenge of monitoring and protecting an organization’s IT infrastructure grows, companies need AI and automation to keep pace and protect themselves against cyber threats. Many of the biggest challenges that corporate security teams face — alert overload, burnout, slow incident response, etc. — can be mitigated or eliminated by leveraging the power of AI.
Check Point’s Infinity AI Copilot is an Intelligent GenAI assistant designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of corporate cybersecurity teams. By streamlining, expediting, and automating common administrative tasks, Infinity AI Copilot both closes security gaps more quickly and enables SOC analysts to focus their efforts where they can have the greatest impact. To learn more about what AI can do for your security program, sign up for the Infinity AI Copilot Preview Program.
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