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The cybersecurity landscape has shifted from traditional methods like firewalls and antivirus software to more sophisticated, AI-driven strategies. The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report identifies ransomware as a leading attack type, with a median time to compromise now measured in hours. The attack surface is expanding due to remote work, cloud adoption, and IoT devices, while traditional security measures struggle to keep up. AI enhances security across three domains: prevention, detection, and response. 1. Prevention: AI distinguishes between legitimate and suspicious activities, improving predictive accuracy and enabling proactive defenses against attacks. AI models can identify zero-day malware and fileless attacks by focusing on behavior. 2. Detection: AI-powered tools like SIEM systems analyze vast amounts of data to identify risks and suspicious patterns in near real-time, reducing false positives and highlighting low-and-slow attacks and insider threats. 3. Response: AI automates rapid containment and remediation actions, allowing human analysts to focus on more complex tasks. Generative AI can assist in drafting incident reports and suggesting remediation measures. AI-driven security offers scale and efficiency, reducing breach costs significantly for organizations that utilize it. AI models adapt to evolving threats, and AI tools help bridge the cybersecurity skills gap. However, challenges include potential biases in AI models, the need for talent and change management, and privacy concerns. Organizations are encouraged to adopt AI-driven security as a core component of their digital defense strategy to improve risk posture and threat response.