5 AI Tools for IT and Cybersecurity Audits

To meet the security challenges of today, IT and cybersecurity professionals are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance their audit capabilities. These tools harness the potential of machine learning, automation, and data analytics to provide a deeper understanding of an organization's IT infrastructure.

So without further ado, let's dive into the 5 AI tools that can help with your IT and cybersecurity audits.

1. Darktrace Detect

• Versatility: Darktrace's DETECT feature offers instant visibility and advanced threat detection across Cloud, Apps, Email, Endpoint, Network, Zero Trust, and OT.
• Evolution: Darktrace's Self-Learning AI continuously evolves its understanding of your organization's unique patterns and behaviors.
• Auditing: Darktrace's DETECT is always active, analyzing thousands of metrics to reveal subtle deviations that might indicate evolving threats.
• Implementation: It can be installed in minutes and begins to understand your organization's patterns within about a week.
• Prevention: It feeds data into Darktrace RESPOND, an AI-powered security solution that proactively disarms potential threats.
• AI Analyst: Darktrace's Cyber AI Analyst is a valuable tool that investigates the output of Darktrace DETECT.
• AI-generated incident reports: Darktrace's incident reports are designed to be easily understood by individuals at all levels of the organization.

Darktrace provides a free Proof of Value period of 30 days after which it's chargeable at a starting price of $30,000/year for small organizations.

2. Splunk

• Unified Security Platform for audits: This platform provides comprehensive security solutions to monitor, analyze, and respond to various aspects of the IT environment.
• Prevent Major Issues: Using artificial intelligence, Splunk can identify key risks and potential threats in IT infrastructure and take proactive actions.
• Absorb Shocks: In the event of outages or security breaches, Splunk helps organizations restore critical services, minimize downtime, and create incident reports.
• Accelerate Transformation: Organizations can safely and rapidly implement changes, whether they involve technology, processes, or compliance requirements.
• Trusted by Leading Organizations: Splunk has earned the trust of a diverse range of leading organizations worldwide.

Pricing for Splunk is flexible and one can choose from a range of options including a free trial for proof of value. For an easy estimate, head to their website.

3. Trellix

• Advanced Threat Detection: Gain critical context into who is targeting your organization and understand their motivations.
• AI powered prediction: The smart and adaptive platform allows you to predict and prevent emerging threats, identify root causes, and respond in real-time.
• Guided Investigation: Progress through guided investigative steps to acquire decisive context, enabling faster and more accurate incident response.
• Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR): Leverage pre-built playbooks created by frontline practitioners to automate response actions.
• Plug & Play Security Ecosystem: Easily integrate security from a library of over 650 data sources.
• User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA): Correlate alerts with machine learning to identify and respond to risky activities, improving overall security posture.

The pricing information is not available directly but you can request a demo from their website.

4. Tenable Nessus

• Assess Modern Attack Surface: Tenable extends beyond traditional IT assets to fortify web applications, gain visibility into internet-connected attack surfaces, and secure cloud infrastructure.
• AI powered audits: Offers unlimited IT vulnerability assessments, configuration, compliance, and security audits. Can be used anywhere, provides configurable reports, and offers community support.
• Holistic Scans: Includes web application scans for up to 5 Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs). Ability to add FQDNs, perform external attack surface scans, add domains, and scan cloud infrastructure.
• Unrivaled Accuracy: Nessus boasts the industry's lowest false positive rate, with six-sigma accuracy and only 0.32 defects per million scans.
• Broadest Vulnerability Coverage: Nessus provides the deepest and broadest vulnerability coverage in the industry, ensuring comprehensive threat detection.

A typical 1 year license cost $3590 and gives you access to it's whole suite of functions.

5. Securonix

• Unified Defense SIEM Platform: Get best-in-class threat defense with a SIEM that unifies threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) on Snowflake's Data Cloud.
• Scalable Data Lake: Gain fast access to one year of hot data for investigations, threat hunting, and response.
• Threat Content-as-a-Service: Unlock broad threat coverage through continuously curated and delivered threat content that reduces false positives.
• Proactive Defense: Harness the power of intelligence produced and shared by peers and partners.
• Unified TDIR Experience: Streamline the analyst experience to deliver detection, investigation, and response in a single interface.
• Flexible Deployment for Every Organization: Securonix offers flexible deployment options, including SaaS, Bring Your Own Cloud, and Managed Service.

Securonix also does flexible pricing so you can reach out to them on their website to get an estimate.

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