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Wielding AI As a Teammate in Cybersecurity

How to Optimize Human-AI Collaboration

By Dan Cole, VP of Product Marketing, ThreatConnect

Many discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) today trend to swing toward one extreme or the other:
AI is either a revolutionary force or a harbinger of job displacement. It will either be really good for us or
really bad, Terminator-style.

However, the reality is much more nuanced. There is no single, inevitable AI future. Rather, the impact
of AI will depend less on its capabilities and more on how we choose to wield it.

This is especially true in the cybersecurity space. AI has great potential to make the threat landscape
more manageable for security teams, so they can more effectively prevent and mitigate major cyber
events. However, cybersecurity teams will need to take a thoughtful and strategic approach to integrating
AI into cyber operations to maximize its impact.

At ThreatConnect, we believe that to effectively fight cyber threats moving forward, security teams will
need to rethink their processes, workflows, and their own roles to find the right balance where AI
enhances but doesn’t replace human expertise.

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