FEATURE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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THESE DEVELOPMENTS COULD ULTIMATELY CHANGE THE RANGE OF JOBS ON OFFER WITHIN IT SECURITY. being the operational proponent within the network, to making the decisions that could determine the security of the network. On the other hand, the Security Manager might become the Policy Manager, determining the various policies and credentials necessary to access business networks. individual approach to security possible, which is more than can be said for the ability of a human IT team. With the machine doing the brunt of the monitoring work within the network, the human agent need not intervene until an entity risk score gets above threshold. This automatic monitoring offers IT staff exceptional time savings which means they can get on with tackling other IT issues throughout the organisation.
Security’ s positive impact on the workforce
With AI-based machine learning introduced in the workplace, security teams stand to benefit greatly. The technology isn’ t here to replace the human element in security operations; it will augment the human’ s intelligence, allowing staff to make better decisions based on the quality of the actions being proposed and the forensics data being furnished. Permissions, for instance, won’ t be automated by artificial intelligence; it will flag the request to a human agent, who can use the information gathered and knowledge of the actor, to make an informed decision.
These developments could ultimately change the range of jobs on offer within IT security. Security staff will move from
While the approaches of human workers might change during the course of the rollout of this technology throughout enterprises, their work will be no less important. They will still need to build security into the core of the network, regardless of the technology already in place.
As the world moves into a state of‘ data as commodity’, the network is still the most important infrastructure to maintain and keep safe as it is the first line of defence. It’ s time to start thinking about these developments as they become more prevalent because human IT staff need all the help they can get when combatting increasingly intelligent threats. •
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