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Japanese companies NTT DATA and NTT DOCOMO Business are working on developing a new AI-based cybersecurity solution that will allow organizations to detect and address their security vulnerabilities efficiently. The new cybersecurity tool, scheduled to be released on July 31, is an innovative service which uses frontier artificial intelligence to support businesses during all stages of the security process, including vulnerability detection, risk assessment, and remediation planning, among other things.
The news came as businesses around the world were becoming targets of sophisticated attacks based on artificial intelligence. While businesses use the technology for automating their processes and boosting productivity, hackers use it to conduct phishing attacks, develop malware, and take advantage of security vulnerabilities. Under such conditions, AI-based cybersecurity is one of the most rapidly growing fields in enterprise technology.
AI Is Transforming Cybersecurity Operations
These days, modern businesses produce vast amounts of security alerts, which makes it difficult for their internal IT security team to discern between important and less significant threats from other notifications about their systems. Quite often, enterprises may have information about the vulnerabilities in their systems but cannot use that information to come up with adequate remediation strategies before their systems become exploited by cyber criminals.
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The new service by NTT DATA and NTT DOCOMO Business aims at solving this problem through its integration of AI and the expertise of cybersecurity experts. Unlike other solutions that only provide information on vulnerabilities, this solution helps organizations assess the potential impact, prioritize actions, and take necessary steps regarding their security needs.
It becomes especially important when companies keep growing their clouds and using more hybrid work models and AI-enabled applications.
Supporting Japan’s Expanding Digital Economy
It perfectly correlates with the overall Japanese strategy on digital transformation.
There has been an intense effort by Japanese companies in using AI, cloud computing, industrial IoT, and digital platforms to advance their business processes and boost competitiveness. But with such digital transformation, there are also risks as cyber threats increase as more businesses are exposed to sophisticated attacks that target identities, clouds, and even devices.
A number of recent events proved how AI could be used by cyber attackers to conduct reconnaissance, create sophisticated social engineering attacks, and discover any vulnerabilities in an incredibly quick manner. Hence, many Japanese technology vendors are beginning to integrate AI into security solutions to increase their effectiveness in detecting attacks and responding to them in a timely fashion.
By implementing AI-enabled cyber risk management tools, NTT DATA and NTT DOCOMO Business will help Japan become more resilient to cyber threats.
Opportunities for Japan’s Technology Industry
The new solution also indicates that momentum is building up in the country’s cybersecurity industry.
The need for AI-based cybersecurity solutions is anticipated to surge in industries such as finance and banking, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunication, public sector, and critical infrastructure. This presents business opportunities for software vendors, cloud service providers, cybersecurity startups, system integrators, and managed security service providers to scale their capabilities by leveraging smart tools for cyber risk management.
AI is fast emerging as a key element of enterprise security solutions, providing capabilities such as automation of threat detection, behavioral analytics, risk prediction, and incident response. As enterprises continue deploying AI technology in their operations, the need for related solutions such as identity management, zero trust architecture, cloud security, and AI governance platform will also rise.
Being proficient in enterprise IT services and telecommunication, domestic IT firms in Japan can have a significant role to play in the rapidly growing global cybersecurity space.
Helping Businesses Build Cyber Resilience
For companies doing business in Japan, the need for proactive management of their cyber risks is a strategic concern rather than a technical one.
Cyber-attacks can cause operational disruptions, disclose personal information of customers, damage the reputation of organizations, and result in major financial losses. The use of AI-based risk management allows enterprises to detect risks sooner, prioritize the resolution of risks based on the effect on their operations, and stay compliant with changing regulations.
Organizations such as manufacturers can bolster their OT environments, banks can protect their customer transactions, hospitals can secure the data of patients, and retail organizations can increase the robustness of their e-commerce platforms. Even small and medium-sized businesses, which do not necessarily have substantial in-house teams responsible for IT security, may find it beneficial to outsource the AI-enabled service.
With increasing digital transformation in all industries, cybersecurity is transforming into a competitive advantage.
AI Becomes a Strategic Defense Tool
The announcement of the AI-powered cyber risk management service provided by NTT DATA and NTT DOCOMO Business is part of a much larger trend in the sphere of business security. The time when companies could effectively use conventional security measures to fight automated cyber attacks has long gone, and now businesses have to resort to innovative, intelligent security platforms that will analyze the complex patterns of cyber attacks and react to the arising risks.
The project in question is of particular importance for Japan as a country working on its secure and innovative digital infrastructure that will facilitate the development of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and connected industries.
In light of the ever-growing importance of artificial intelligence in both cyber attacks and cyber defense, there is every reason to believe that innovative, intelligent, and automated solutions for cyber defense will be used more widely in the near future. The AI-powered service in question developed by NTT DATA and NTT DOCOMO Business is yet another illustration of how artificial intelligence transforms the landscape of business.
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