Fighting AI-Driven Malware: Using AI for Effective Defense

AI represents a generational shift for cybersecurity, enabling smarter, faster, and more adaptive defenses against evolving threats. Combining it with the most effective modern cybersecurity framework-zero trust-draws a clear path forward, delivering dynamic, context-aware protection to face and overcome threats like AI-driven malware.

The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform, the world's largest inline security cloud, is built to meet the demands of the AI-driven threat landscape. Processing more than 500 trillion daily signals from the platform and 150+ third-party integrations, it fuels intelligent security copilots, automated policy enforcement, advanced data classification, zero-day detection, malware identification, and more.

By combining zero trust and AI, the platform is able to rapidly and globally enforce adaptive, AI-enhanced policies to block AI-enabled attacks. Our approach enables organizations to:

• Securely embrace public and private AI
• Fights malicious AI with trusted AI
• Radically simplify and automate security
• Reduce costs and complexity

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