Prospects of Artificial Intelligence in Tackling Cyber Crimes

As we are living in an interconnected online world, most of our everyday communications and commercial activities now take place via the Internet. Since cyber infrastructure is highly vulnerable to attacks, the threats in cyber space move at the speed of light. With the speed of cyber activity and high volume of data used, the protection of cyber space cannot be handled by any physical device or by human intervention alone. It needs considerable automation to detect threats and to make intelligent real-time decisions. It is difficult to develop software with conventional algorithms to effectively protect against the dynamically evolving attacks. It can be tackled by applying bio inspired computing methods of artificial intelligence to the software. The purpose of this study is to explore the possibilities of artificial intelligence in addressing the cybercrime issues.