RISK & RESILIENCE
“CYBERSECURITY DEFENDERS HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AI TO KEEP PACE. AUTOMATING SOME OF OUR TASKS AND WORKLOADS WILL REDUCE OUR BURDEN”
Mihoko Matsubara, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, NTT
Q. IN WHAT WAYS IS NTT LEVERAGING AI AND THREAT INTELLIGENCE TO STRENGTHEN INCIDENT DETECTION AND RESPONSE ACROSS GLOBAL OPERATIONS? HOW CAN ENTERPRISES EMULATE THIS MODEL?
» Cybersecurity defenders have no choice but to take advantage of AI to keep pace. Automating some of our tasks and workloads will reduce our burden.
At NTT, we have been using ML capabilities over the last decade or so to analyse behavioural patterns and use predictive analytics to detect threats, and we have recently started to use Gen AI in tandem for threat assessment.
For example, NTT Security proved in 2023 that GPT-4 can identify if a website is legitimate or phishing at more than 98 % accuracy ratio – GPT 3.5 can do so at 86.7 % accuracy. SentinelOne argues that phishing attacks have increased by 1,265 % due to the growth of Gen AI.
Gen AI has lowered the bar for adversaries to launch cyberattacks, meaning defenders have no choice but to empower themselves to automate at least partially their tasks including log or phishing analysis, threat detection, behavioural analysis and incident report drafting. This is crucial for defenders who are overwhelmed by ever increasing work around the clock to minimize burnout risks.
98 March 2026