As a tool to combat sophisticated cyber attacks and become more resilient, organizations are increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), according to Wipro Ltd’s annual state of cyber security report (SOCR).

Being focussed on AI and machine learning (ML), the report said that there has been an increase in R&D with 49% of the worldwide cyber security related patents filed in the last four years. 

The report further stated, “Nearly half the organizations are expanding cognitive detection capabilities to tackle unknown attacks in their Security Operations Centre (SOC)."

The report has found that about 86 percent of all attacks across nation and state fall under the espionage category. While about 46 percent are targeted towards private companies.

The report also said that for patent filing, 5G security will be an emerging area, wherein, 7 percent of the patents filed globally in the cyber domain have been related to 5G security in the last four years.