Artificial intelligence (AI)
Also called: AI
Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 1: Introduction to Security
Computer systems that perform tasks such as generating text, recognizing patterns or sorting events, used by both adversaries and defenders.
Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 1.4.A.11.5.A.11.5.B.2
Why it matters in Unit 1
Adversaries use AI to impersonate, phish and research; defenders use it to review configurations and sort millions of events.
Example
A detection tool flags 12 likely malicious events out of 3 million in a day.
Learn it properly, with a checkpoint 1.4 AI-Based Cybersecurity Attacks