The Record - Issue 21: Summer 2021

49 allow businesses to stay ahead of cybercriminals, and benefit from enhanced business resilience. Last year, in one incident, cybercriminals used AI-generated audio to impersonate a CEO’s voice and trick employees into transferring €220,000 ($243,000). Hi-tech criminal tactics aren’t likely to cease any time soon – companies should leverage advanced security tools to pre- vent vulnerabilities before they happen. To mitigate cybersecurity attacks across the thread landscape, it’s critical for organisations to implement a zero-trust policy. A zero-trust policy initially assumes that every action is a malicious action. Whilst this stance would have historically impacted the productivity of an organisation, today’s cloud-based AI powered solutions have addressed that risk and empow- ered organisations to increase security whilst protecting the productivity of the organisation. AI in cybersecurity – Taking the offensive route AI machine learning enabled security cloud platforms are tasked with continuously evolving to better protect organisations today. Microsoft security platforms process eight trillion security signals daily, continuously evolving its AI to mit- igate threats in real time. This platform learning puts bad actors on the back foot as the AI takes learnings from a global footprint to protect each individual organisation. Azure Sentinel, for example, Microsoft’s cloud-native security information and event management service, is also a security orches- tration automated response solution all in one. It brings together the latest in security innovation and advanced AI to provide near real-time intel- ligent security analytics for a comprehensive overview of an enterprise’s entire IT estate. By adopting AI-powered cybersecurity solu- tions now, businesses can move to a more resil- ient future. Mick McNeil is vice president of business development, Leading Microsoft Business Unit at Logicalis For more information on Logicalis and its AI-machine learning-enabled security cloud platform LogiGuard, visit Microsoft Marketplace or get in touch at info@logicalis.com “It’s critical for organisations to implement a zero-trust policy”