人工智能和区块链塑造网络安全的未来

尼克·哈斯特赖特尔

As we become increasingly dependent on technology in our daily lives we open ourselves up to an entirely new kind of threat， cyberattacks.

When we started thinking about cybersecurity and where its heading， one of the first issues brought up was the Internet of Things. Someone tampering with your computer while youre surfing the web is an inconvenience， but what about someone hacking into your car while youre driving down the highway？

So， in an effort to ease our fears and gain a better perspective we decided to ask a group of cybersecurity experts…

Whats the future of cybersecurity？

随着我们在日常生活中愈加依赖科技，我们将面对一种全新的威胁：网络攻击。

我们开始思考网络安全及其发展方向时，提出的第一个问题就是物联网。在您上网时，有人窜改您的计算機会带来不便，那您在路上行驶时，有人黑入您的汽车怎么办？

因此，为了缓解我们的恐惧并获得更好的认知，我们决定咨询一群网络安全专家……

网络安全的未来是什么样的？

Ondrej Vlcek， CTO & GM of Consumer at Avast1

“In 10-15 years， we will be deep in a ‘war of the machines era with advances in artificial intelligence bringing fast and sophisticated execution of security defense and cybercrime. This will be a battle of AI vs AI.

“The availability of low cost computing and storage， off-the-shelf machine learning algorithms， AI code and open AI platforms will drive increased AI use by the good guys to defend and protect—but also increase deployment of AI by the bad guys. There will be sophisticated attacks launched on a grand scale， quickly and intelligently with little human intervention， that compromise our digital devices and web infrastructure.

“Cybercriminals will create fully autonomous， AI-based attacks that will operate completely independently， adapt， make decisions on their own and more. Security companies will counter this by developing and deploying AI-based defensive systems. Humans will simply supervise the process.”

翁德雷·弗尔切克，Avast首席技术官兼客户总经理

“10到15年内，人工智能的进步会让安全防御和网络犯罪变得快速且复杂，我们将深陷‘机器战时代。这将是一场人工智能对人工智能的战斗。

“低成本计算及存储、现成的机器学习算法、人工智能代码和开放式人工智能平台，将促使好人更多地使用人工智能来捍卫安全，但也会让坏人增加对人工智能的利用。几乎无须人工干预，快速、智能且复杂的大规模攻击将会危及我们的数码设备和网络基础设施。

“网络犯罪分子将基于人工智能制造完全自主的攻击;这些攻击将完全独立运行、自行调节、自主决策等。安全公司将通过开发和部署基于人工智能的防御系统来应对。人类仅需监督该过程。”

Konstantinos Karagianni， CTO of BT

“Blockchains are moving from the realm of just fueling cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to providing smart contracts， identity management， and multiple ways of proving integrity of data. They may also hold the key to defending against IoT attacks.

“Quantum computing will have possibly the biggest impact within 10 years. Most over-the-wire encrypted transmissions collected over the next decade will be readable， and even private keys will be reversible from public blockchains （for example， you can spend someone elses Bitcoin）. Post-quantum safe crypto will be a must.

“AI will be used to identify hacking flaws and patch them to stay ahead of malicious attackers.”

康斯坦丁诺斯·卡拉詹尼，英国电信集团首席技术官

“区块链此前仅为比特币等加密货币提供技术支撑，现正转向其他领域，如提供智能合约、身份管理及多种证明数据完整性的方法。它们也可能是防御物联网攻击的关键。