EDITOR’ S QUESTION
AS AFRICAN ENTERPRISES BEGIN TO ADOPT GENERATIVE AI AND MACHINE LEARNING THROUGH PILOT PROJECTS AND PROOF OF CONCEPTS, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BEST PRACTICES AROUND DATA MANAGEMENT AND DATA CENTRES THAT AFRICAN ENTERPRISES CAN LEARN FROM AND BUILD INTO THEIR OPERATIONS?
Africa’ s digital future depends on developing infrastructure that can manage computational workloads. This requires investment in highperformance computing technologies that support extreme rack densities and are scalable enough for AI models and applications. African enterprises must balance legacy infrastructure, address power and cooling, and ensure sustainability. Executives from Armata Cyber Security, DMP SA, Vertiv, and Commvault share answers to this month’ s question.
RICHARD FROST, HEAD OF CONSULTING, ARMATA CYBER SECURITY
Humans need to sleep, AI does not. One of the biggest advantages offered by AI-empowered security systems is their ability to take global threats and provide local relevance. Artificial Intelligence is not just enhancing threats, it is providing organisations with a smart line of agile and detectable defence.
AI security tools are moving beyond traditional signature-based approaches and can now identify subtle patterns in digital behaviours. These systems are capable of continuously learning from network traffic, users, systems and applications to establish behavioural baselines.
The solution is not invasive. It is an alert. It is a warning system which gives people the chance to relook the content they send and receive and ensure they are not about to make an expensive mistake. The technology is designed to minimise the risk of identity fraud, phishing, and ransomware through intelligent detection and alerts.
Machine Learning algorithms are then used to correlate unrelated events across multiple systems, identifying a potential attack chain that a human analyst may miss. For example, a combination of failed login attempts followed by a successful login from a new IP address alongside unusual system file activity could flag a compromise in progress.
Today, the organisation can thrive despite these threats because of the richness of AI-enhanced solutions. It is challenging to remain resilient with AI faking voices, interviews and access, but resilience comes standard with the right tools and security partner. The World Economic Forum defines cyber-resilience as an integral part of an organisation’ s operations, culture and teams.
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