ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CYBER SECURITY – FACE TO FACE WITH CYBER ATTACK – A MALTESE CASE OF RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH

Narcisa Roxana Mosteanu

Abstract


The work paper aims to underline the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence to improve the business productivity, and in the same time to address awareness in order to overcome fear in exploring new technology, because of cyber-attacks. How vulnerable are businesses to computerization? 100%. Internet is a virtual space available for everyone. Storing data on any device that can be connected to the internet can become vulnerable in any given second. This article comes to show how we can use cybersecurity to protect our business, presenting in the same time cases of risk management form Malta.

Keywords


cybersecurity, cyberattack, artificial intelligence, risk management, banking system

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