A comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity
Arunima Sharma · 2025
By the year 2016, there was an enormous rise in the usage of Internet of Things (IoT), with hand in hand the threat of innumerable types of cyberattacks affecting users all over the world. Since the last few decades, there has been a substantial increase in the number of cyberattacks, and they have also become more sophisticated. For this reason, it is of paramount importance to design a cyber-resilient system. To prevent data breaches related to cyberattacks, a conventional approach to security is not sufficient. Cybersecurity finds its utilization in technologies, processes, and panels to guard different systems, networks, and data related to programs and devices from various cyberattacks. The foremost objective of cybersecurity finds itself in the reduction of the risk involved in cyberattacks and protecting against unauthorized manipulation of different networks, systems, and involved technologies. New techniques are learned and used by cybercriminals to hack the data, attack it, and finally breach the data. Fortunately, in artificial intelligence (AI), there are several smart models used for defending systems are introduced. AI is a very important and powerful tool in cybersecurity helping in the three tasks mainly for teams that are automating repetitive tasks, accelerating the detection of threats and responses and lastly improving the precision of their respective actions, ensuring to toughen the security system against cyberattacks. So, as the AI rapidly addresses the complex scenarios in the system, hence is very useful to protect the data and to be used for cybersecurity. This chapter discusses AI in cybersecurity and the history involved in the introduction of AI in security scenarios. Various defense tools involved in AI-based techniques are powerful and effective in recognizing malware attacks, different intrusions in network data breaches and spams and altering the security network when the intrusion takes place. In this chapter, we also discuss different AI-based techniques and approaches used in cybersecurity. In this chapter, we shed some light on the advantages and limitations of the respective phenomena. We transiently discuss the future scope in this respective scenario. In this chapter, we review the bearing of AI in the field of cybersecurity and discuss the different techniques and technologies involved with AI.