Is AI ready to protect schools from cyberattacks?

The use of artificial intelligence to bolster cybersecurity defenses is not new.

For at least a decade, much of the must-have cybersecurity tools available have been powered by machine learning, predictive analytics, and pattern recognition—subsets of the broader bucket of artificial intelligence, said Amy McLaughlin, the cybersecurity project director for the Consortium for School Networking, or CoSN.

What is new to the field is generative and agentic AI, McLaughlin said. Generative AI can create new content, including text, images, and videos, by using existing data and patterns it’s trained on. Agentic AI can operate autonomously to achieve different objectives, with minimal human supervision.

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