AI can help agencies enhance their cyber defense, study finds

Artificial intelligence tools can help the government better identify and defend against a host of cyber threats, according to a recent survey of federal agencies’ defensive cyber operations.

The report, released on Tuesday by General Dynamics Information Technology, found that significant numbers of federal officials were inundated with data and concerned about the impact that human oversight and staffing challenges could have on existing cyber risks — all vulnerabilities that AI could potentially address.