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Enterprise Security: Using AI for Intrusion Detection & Prevention

Explore AI’s role in cybersecurity with IDS: IDS types and methods, benefits and challenges, and how to prevent security breaches. Discover AI’s prediction, detection, and response capabilities.

  • Skill level

    Intermediate
  • Time to complete

    Approx. 2 hours
  • Certificate of completion

    Yes

About this course

Instruction detection systems (IDSs) can help organizations monitor networks or systems for malicious activity or policy violations and alert them when such activity is discovered. In this course, you will explore the key roles artificial intelligence (AI) plays in cybersecurity, including prediction, detection, and response. Then you will discover key differences between intrusion detection systems, vulnerability management systems, behavioral analytics, and security auditing systems. Next, you will investigate intrusion detection system types like network intrusion, network node, host intrusion, protocol-based, and application protocol-based intrusion detection systems. Examine intrusion detection system methods, such as signature-based intrusion, anomaly-based, and hybrid intrusion detection, and take a look at AI-based intrusion detection benefits and challenges. Finally, focus on how AI can detect and prevent security threats, and dig into possible future trends related to security threats.

Learning objectives

  • Discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • Describe the three key roles ai plays in cybersecurity: prediction, detection, and response
  • Differentiate between intrusion detection systems, vulnerability management systems, behavioral analytics, and security auditing systems
Meet the creator of the course
William MacDonald
Cybersecurity Expert
William MacDonald has been working in various IT roles for over 15 years. During this time, he has worked on desktop support, enterprise server systems, managed IT and broadcasting departments, and provided hands on cybersecurity training. William holds his PMP, CGEIT, and CISSP certifications as well as technical certifications from Microsoft, VMWare, and Cisco. He has a MBA from Syracuse University and holds an undergrad in business administration.

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How to Break Into Cybersecurity Without a Degree

Cory Stieg
Jul 9, 2025

This past year, the job market saw 514,359 listings from public and private employers, all hunting for cybersecurity specialists or tech talent with serious cybersecurity skills.

As tech continues to transform our lives, more people are needed to defend these technologies and keep up with their advancements, says Okey Obudulu, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Skillsoft, the company that Codecademy is proud to be part of. “The blatant attacks on companies’ networks have led more and more companies to really get serious around the demand for cybersecurity professionals,” he says.

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