Free AI cyber tools by Google to boost cyber security

Google announces free AI cyber tools to bolster online security and battle cybercrime

Google, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., has announced a heap of free artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enable organizations to improve their online (digital) security by leveraging the technology to fight cybercrime.

The search engine giant said that it is open-sourcing an innovative AI-enabled tool named Magika to assist defenders via file type identification, a critical portion of finding malware.

Magika, which is already being used to protect products like Gmail, Safe Browsing, and Drive, will be available for free. This AI-powered tool can outdo the traditional file identification processes, thus giving an overall 30% accuracy increase and nearly 95% more precision on difficult-to-find but problematic content like JavaScript, VBA, and Powershell.

At the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Google will release a whitepaper detailing how the company is using AI for cyber safety. The whitepaper will also have details about the policy plan that urges advanced AI research.

Kent Walker, President for global affairs at Alphabet stated that Google’s AI cyber protection initiative reverses the defender’s dilemma, where the defenders have to be correct always while the cyber attackers have to right only once. And to keep up the drive, an organization requires policies that can nullify the threats by using AI.

Google has also declared extra investments in research partnerships and grants to enhance cybersecurity research leveraging AI and the cybersecurity seminars extension, which includes AI modules.

Even the hackers, using models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to bolster their plans and troubleshoot technical problems, are incorporating AI in their cyber-crime operations.