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90 Percent of Business Leaders Lack Faith in AI-driven Cybersecurity Solutions, Arelion Report Reveals

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90 Percent of Business Leaders Lack Faith in AI-driven Cybersecurity Solutions, Arelion Report Reveals

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — According to the findings of a new report from Arelion, a staggering 90 percent of decision makers believe that hackers are more likely to trick AI-based cybersecurity tools than those operated by humans – especially for 34 percent of US and 29 percent of UK business leaders. With enterprise network decision makers in every region and industry sector surveyed identifying AI-related cybersecurity threats as their #1 network challenge, 65 percent of them expect DDoS attacks to be largely driven by AI (as opposed to humans) within four years. Significantly, 25 percent say they are already facing DDoS attacks specifically engineered to circumvent AI-driven cybersecurity defenses.

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The report entitled “Artificial Intelligence: Opportunity or Threat for Global Networks?” is based on a survey conducted in the US, UK, France and Germany, and aims to address the overarching question as to whether AI is a boon or a burden for businesses. It highlights the disruptive nature of AI and provides insights into the complex – and sometimes contrary – impacts that enterprise leaders are seeing it have on their organizations and networks.

For example, leaders recognize that AI facilitates a never-ending cycle of attack and defense on the cybersecurity battlefield. Not only does it pose cybersecurity challenges to their network operations but, in turn, 68 percent of business leaders expect DDoS attack mitigation to be largely driven by AI (as opposed to humans) within four years.

AI is living up to the hype
In terms of its overall business impact, the report reveals that AI is living up to the hype that often surrounds it. When measuring the claims for AI against genuine business benefits, over half (55 percent) of senior network decision makers said that they do not believe AI has been overhyped because they are already seeing real benefits from it across their business. While 25 percent of leaders said that they do think that it has been overhyped in the short term, they foresee substantial mid- to long-term benefits from AI.

Additionally, most enterprise network decision makers (68 percent) are comfortable with AI taking an increasing role in their network operations as 63 percent believe that AI will cut network costs over the next three years.

But AI is also raising several major concerns
However, significant reservations were identified among enterprise network decision makers. Citing it as their number one concern, 70 percent of business leaders across the markets and industry verticals stated that AI is making network operations more complex. The second-highest concern is that AI is causing a loss of competency and skills. The degradation of human skills due to AI could exacerbate these existing shortages even further, particularly when considering Arelion’s earlier 2024 report “Doubt, delay and regret: How global disruptors are impacting enterprise networks“, which found that almost half of the enterprise network decision makers surveyed (48 percent) struggle to get staff with a suitable skill set.

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