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AI is becoming a cornerstone for innovation and transformation. However, many CIOs are still struggling to effectively leverage AI to drive business outcomes and use cases while trying to understand cyber security risks. Gartner’s CIO Report (September 2024) details how AI has tremendous promise.
In this blog post, we will dive into the key insights from the report and explore how the Gurucul security analytics platform REVEAL can help CIOs harness the power of AI to address critical business challenges and achieve tangible results.
Gartner’s report shows that 49% of leaders struggle to demonstrate AI’s value within their organization. This disconnect can hinder AI adoption and lead to missed opportunities for growth and efficiency. Gurucul’s AI-powered platform can be strategically utilized to refine security operations and enhance overall efficiency. By implementing advanced log optimization techniques, organizations can streamline data processing and significantly cut down on ingestion costs, resulting in more cost-effective resource allocation. This capability ensures that the volume of logs processed aligns with critical security priorities, eliminating redundant data and optimizing storage use.
Simultaneously, the platform delivers prescriptive analytics that shed light on the effectiveness of existing security investments. It evaluates and reports on how well current tools and strategies are contributing to security objectives, providing actionable recommendations to strengthen their performance. This dual approach not only refines operational workflows but also ensures that an organization’s budget is maximized by aligning expenditures with impactful security outcomes.
The CIO Report emphasizes that focusing on high-impact, business-aligned AI applications is essential to ensure both quick wins and long-term strategic gains. Gurucul offers the capability to swiftly identify and prioritize high-impact security use cases, ensuring tangible outcomes are achieved. Whether it’s simply providing deeper insights into organizational risk or even showing increased operational efficiency for Threat Detection, Investigation and Response (TDIR) workflows.
The report summarizes that establishing a baseline serves as the foundation for continuous improvement. This ensures that AI remains relevant and adaptable to organizational changes, regulatory requirements, technological advancements and of course the adversary. Gurucul’s platform is built entirely with scalability and flexibility in mind. With a key focus on being an open architecture which allows for easy integration with various data sources and the development of custom use cases. As a result, Gurucul can demonstrate continuous value in its effectiveness through detailed reporting and analytics. CIOs can use this data to showcase how AI-driven cybersecurity has a direct positive impact on the organization’s overall risk profile, making it easier to justify the ongoing investment.
The report highlights that cybercrime poses a significant threat to organizations worldwide. With damages estimated at nearly $6 trillion. A key focus for leaders is mitigating reputational damage. Gurucul’s is designed to detect threats through continuous and adaptive learning. The platform leverages machine learning to analyze user and entity behaviors to identify anomalous activity and emerging threats. This proactive approach to security ensures that organizations can quickly understand and mitigate risks before they escalate into a costly breach.
Gartner’s report underscores the importance of upskilling and development of their employees as part of a successful AI strategy. Gurucul’s primary purpose is to help reduce the technical burden on teams. The platform encompasses over 3,500 of out-of-the-box machine learning models which significantly help reduce the noise associated with traditional security alerts. While at the same time seamlessly leveraging automation through integrated workflows to help reduce the manual tasks often undertaken by SOC analysts. Both features allowing humans to focus on more strategic initiatives. The SME AI feature provides an interactive medium for humans to learn by querying the platform for actionable intelligence to understand the data and work toward mitigating threats.
AI has the potential to transform businesses, but only if CIOs can effectively align their AI initiatives with core business goals and use cases. By partnering with Gurucul, leaders take advantage of AI to drive innovation, improve efficiency and reduce risks. Gurucul is designed to deliver tangible business value, helping you achieve your ongoing strategic objectives. Contact us today to see how Gurucul can help unlock the potential of ML/AI for your SecOps team.
About the Author:
Randeep Gill is a Senior Solutions Consultant at Gurucul with nearly 20 years of experience in cybersecurity. He brings a wealth of knowledge in sales engineering, consultancy, and security strategy. His career includes key roles in a Security Operations Center (SOC) for a global service provider, as well as positions at leading cybersecurity vendors. Randeep has been involved in numerous successful cybersecurity initiatives, focusing on advancing organizational maturity through education and helping teams effectively identify and mitigate security risks. His primary goal is to enhance the security posture of organizations through thought leadership and the implementation of innovative technologies.
