Enhancing Cybersecurity with Deep Learning: Proactive Threat Detection and Mitigation Techniques
Mayank Dandriyal, Nishi Gupta · 2025
The increasing sophistication of cyber threats necessitates the adoption of advanced defense mechanisms. This paper investigates the transformative role of deep learning in proactive threat detection and mitigation. The combination of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Transformers within advanced neural network architectures has shown successful results in protecting systems from cyber threats such as anomaly detection and phishing defenses and malware prevention and other protection matters (Goodfellow et al., 2016; Vaswani et al., 2017). The models show successful application performance throughout real-world tests to achieve accurate attack detection and adapt to changing attack environment conditions (Smith et al., 2020). Research evaluates the pharming and JPEG attacks presented in Szegedy et al. (2014) along with the challenges deep learning models face concerning data privacy along with training complexities. Cybersecurity solution development success requires domain expert participation alongside contemporary deep learning methodologies according to research findings. Security protection systems benefit from deep learning because this technology enables adaptive defense capabilities for their advancement.