AI’s adaptability makes it a double-edged sword in cybersecurity. Discuss how AI is transforming both cyber defence and cyber offence. Suggest safeguards to retain this balance.
Kartavya Desk Staff
Topic: Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges
Topic: Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges
Q6. AI’s adaptability makes it a double-edged sword in cybersecurity. Discuss how AI is transforming both cyber defence and cyber offence. Suggest safeguards to retain this balance. (15 M)
Difficulty Level: Medium
Reference: DH
Why the question: The growing use of AI in both cyber defence and offence, including recent incidents involving AI-generated phishing and self-evolving malware, raises urgent concerns about cybersecurity governance and policy safeguards. Key Demand of the question: The answer must analyse how AI is transforming both cybersecurity defence mechanisms and criminal strategies. It must also suggest effective and balanced safeguards to regulate this dual-use potential. Structure of the Answer: Introduction Mention AI’s disruptive role in cyber ecosystems with a current reference or insight into its evolving dual nature. Body AI in cyber defence: Explain major AI contributions like threat detection, automation, predictive analytics. AI in cyber offence: Cover AI-driven threats like deepfakes, adaptive malware, personalised attacks. Safeguards to balance both: Suggest flexible legal frameworks, ethical design norms, institutional reforms. Conclusion End with a crisp insight on the need for agile governance to ensure AI remains an enabler, not a threat.
Why the question: The growing use of AI in both cyber defence and offence, including recent incidents involving AI-generated phishing and self-evolving malware, raises urgent concerns about cybersecurity governance and policy safeguards.
Key Demand of the question: The answer must analyse how AI is transforming both cybersecurity defence mechanisms and criminal strategies. It must also suggest effective and balanced safeguards to regulate this dual-use potential.
Structure of the Answer:
Introduction Mention AI’s disruptive role in cyber ecosystems with a current reference or insight into its evolving dual nature.
• AI in cyber defence: Explain major AI contributions like threat detection, automation, predictive analytics.
• AI in cyber offence: Cover AI-driven threats like deepfakes, adaptive malware, personalised attacks.
• Safeguards to balance both: Suggest flexible legal frameworks, ethical design norms, institutional reforms.
Conclusion End with a crisp insight on the need for agile governance to ensure AI remains an enabler, not a threat.