Overcoming Cyber Challenges
The Cyber AI Imperative
Every day, AI—the ability of machines to perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence—is enhancing cyber operations. It’s a force multiplier for seasoned professionals when it comes to attack detection, behavioral analysis, and risk assessment. It’s improving security outcomes, speed, cost effectiveness, morale in the cyber workforce, and customer satisfaction. But threat actors are also using AI to automate attacks, create more adaptive and evasive threats, and spread lies at scale. Understanding how to improve cyber defense with AI has never been more important.
Booz Allen: Outpacing the Threat with AI
We deliver speed and adaptability, so you can outpace threats wherever the mission demands. We combine sector-leading expertise and capabilities in both cybersecurity and AI to pioneer new approaches at mission scale.
We understand the common challenges in applying AI/ML to defensive cyber operations—and how to mitigate them. Taking a practical approach, we apply our AI to use cases, targeted threats, and specific behaviors. We focus on reducing noise, improving performance and transparency, and addressing significant gaps in common cybersecurity tools.
We put the power of adversary detection at the edge to find and address malicious activity in real-time. We use insights into adversarial movements and operations to train AI models for faster detection. With faster, stronger detections and defenses, you can better mitigate compromises. This, in turn, improves the overall efficiency of network and security operations writ large.
Project Spotlight: Perceptor
The Department of Defense (DOD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is “the senior official responsible for the acceleration of the DOD’s adoption of data, analytics, and AI to generate decision advantage across the boardroom to the battlefield.” In support of that mission, the CDAO is developing a suite of infrastructure, tools, services, and best practices to unify and scale AI-enabled solutions for national defense. To this aim, the CDAO offers Perceptor, an AI/ML deployment and monitoring platform owned and operated by the CDAO and intended for joint community use.
With Perceptor, cyber AI/ML or advanced detection capabilities can be decoupled from the infrastructure in which they are executed and instead aligned to a government standard and shared across agencies. The CDAO has successfully partnered with agencies across DOD to integrate Perceptor with existing defensive suites, accelerating integration of advanced detection tools and AI/ML capabilities, enhancing the defenses of DOD information networks, and allowing government IP retention and cross-agency capability sharing. In practice, this has allowed DOD to fight as one, exchanging and reusing AI/ML capabilities to work together against common adversaries.
Featured Solutions
We have invested in an adversary-informed incubator that meets digital adversaries head on in the spaces where they operate: Booz Allen DarkLabs®. And Booz Allen’s DarkLabs DetectTM solution uncovers the evasion techniques and unpublished threats that attackers use against you. Our solution harnesses the power of large language models (LLM) and autonomous agents, providing an AI-based system that enables an organization to understand a system’s risk—and based on that understanding, optimize the detection logic to monitor that system.
AI for Cyber Services
Assess
Evaluate your cybersecurity posture, identify opportunities to strengthen it with AI, and craft a strategic roadmap to enhance performance through targeted adoption.
Design
Architect and prototype innovative AI-driven solutions tailored to your organization’s unique cybersecurity challenges, ensuring readiness for seamless integration.
Build
Develop, integrate, and deploy robust, enterprise-class AI-powered systems that elevate your cybersecurity operations to meet evolving threats.
Operate
Provide expert cybersecurity analysts to manage, sustain, and continuously optimize your AI-driven defenses, ensuring peak performance and resilience.
