Role of AI in Fighting Cyber Threats While Playing Online Games
Artificial intelligence is the main tool in the fight against modern cyber threats in online games, thanks to machine learning algorithms and the processing of large amounts of data.
For modern gamers, artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years has become more relevant than ever. Although this may sound somewhat contradictory, all the talk around AI and the associated machine learning technology will last for quite a long time. After all, AI is very important in the fight against an ever-growing number of different cyber threats.
The scale of cyber threats in online games has long passed the point where people could cope with them on their own. Today, it is vital to automate the process of identifying and eliminating hazards. Criminals have long used automated processes to conduct attacks with the necessary coverage. To equalize the forces in the fight against hackers, it is necessary to call on the help of artificial intelligence.
Why the most experienced analysts and game devs can’t even compare to artificial intelligence?
At the dawn of computer gaming, we used digital signatures to classify different types of threats. Their creation requires the work of a specialist and time, but to identify the huge variety of modern new cyber threats, their work is no longer enough. Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies solve the problem of lack of human resources and time.
They are becoming an increasingly important element, due to the emergence of new types of malware that often look like harmless files, as well as viruses that can mutate, which makes it even more difficult for antivirus systems to detect such threats. Moreover, malware is also sold on the darknet, allowing people with even little technical knowledge to acquire and distribute new malware.
Of course, game cybersecurity experts can determine the security of files, but to do this, you need to check their code. Analyzing each file in this way is physically impossible, given that every day we encounter more than a million new files. It is unlikely that you will want to use a malware scanner or a tool for removing them, which would rely solely on human capabilities. VPN services partially save the situation (you can analyze their effectiveness in the ExpressVPN review), but today this is not enough.
On the other hand, computers do a great job of it. To get them to do what analysts usually do manually, we created algorithms that decompose the files into the form we need. Machine learning algorithms extract certain characteristics, so-called “fingerprints”, from the resulting files. The data that is extracted as a result is much smaller than the original data and is therefore suitable for mass processing and, most importantly, fast decision-making.
What is the role of AI in combating threats in online games?
With the help of AI, the speed of detecting threats, identifying problems, attacks, algorithms, and anomalies that it is not initially programmed to search for will increase. The machines can be programmed to detect the “unknown”, and this will allow the security services to be one step ahead.
When it comes to the detection of real threats in online games, the context is crucial: we need human intervention to read the hidden communication, intentions, reasons, and motives. This symbiosis of human understanding and the computer’s ability to process and collate data has the best effect of shedding light on previously unknown threats and on those weaknesses that have been overlooked.
AI specialists are constantly improving security mechanisms.
As the scale of threats is constantly increasing, cybersecurity specialists are constantly improving and filling our machines ‘ knowledge bases about different types of clean and malicious files so that they can better distinguish between them. To do this, leading analysts and developers of online games transform the information received about new methods of attackers into algorithms, based on which artificial intelligence learns to make decisions based on the received data.
Of course, the ability of modern specialists to do all this depends on the data they can provide to modern computers for numerical calculations. The more data the users themselves provide, the more accurate the decisions made by the AI systems will be.
Thanks to more than 2.5 billion gamers all over the world, AI developers have a huge amount of information, on the basis of which huge amounts of data are analyzed to identify malicious files. Ultimately, the combination of large amounts of data, machine learning technologies, and artificial intelligence allows artificial intelligence to provide the fastest and most reliable protection against malware.
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