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As we increasingly rely on digital devices and workflows, our data and privacy are under ever-increasing attack. Fortunately, we are also increasingly empowered to defend ourselves with AI cybersecurity tools. These powerful solutions combine machine learning and AI to strengthen existing cybersecurity workflows for endpoints, networks, identities, and cloud environments. They enable threat detection and response, help security teams prioritize alerts, and automate initial investigation and remediation actions.

AI is transforming application security by making scanning and vulnerability management faster, more accurate, and more integrated into the development process. These AI-powered tools include static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA), which use machine learning to improve code and component scanning, and reduce false positives. They also offer unified risk visibility by aggregating findings from native scanners and third-party tools, to highlight the most critical and exploitable risks.

While AI-powered security tools are effective against known attacks, attackers are developing more sophisticated techniques that bypass traditional surfaces. These new classes of threats can be spotted with an augmentation model, which combines crafted inputs to manipulate what the AI does and reports back. This can be achieved by prompt injection, where attackers feed a malicious prompt to the AI, or through adversarial data, where attackers modify training data and trick the model into misclassifying safe input as malicious.

The best AI cybersecurity solutions protect AI applications from the moment they are built, by securing prompts, governing the data flow into and out of production AI workflows, and by ensuring that the model does not execute unsafe LLM outputs or other unintended behavior. These tools can be grouped into two categories: those that secure AI workloads, and those that govern the AI systems themselves.