{"id":87409,"date":"2018-12-18T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoftsecure\/?p=87409"},"modified":"2023-05-15T23:10:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:10:26","slug":"the-ai-cybersecurity-impact-for-iot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2018\/12\/18\/the-ai-cybersecurity-impact-for-iot\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI cybersecurity impact for IoT"},"content":{"rendered":"

I meet with customers around the globe in all sectors\u2014banks with ATM networks, energy companies with critical infrastructure, natural resource companies with remote automated operations, healthcare organizations with medical devices, manufacturing companies with production environments\u2014and they all have the same concerns. They want to leverage robotics and automation to grow their businesses and drive efficiency, but they are concerned about the potential for Internet of Things (IoT) based attacks, which is only exacerbated by the global scale of the cloud. It\u2019s a good news\/bad news problem for companies. Technology has provided them tools for automation at scale, and the cloud is an exceptional delivery vehicle to accelerate digital transformation and growth. Yet, there is a growing concern about security related to the sensors that are critical to this business acceleration.<\/p>\n

While news has accelerated related to the proliferation of IoT devices and their impact on network and cloud infrastructures, artificial intelligence (AI) is also becoming a household word. Organizations are building powerful machine learning engines that analyze massive sets of data at global scale, and AI is increasingly used to augment machine learning to allow machines to learn for themselves and improve the capabilities of the machine learning engine. There has been much research on the topic of AI, and the industry is poised for paid growth according to MIT and IDC. I encourage you to read the following two articles about their research:<\/p>\n