Abstract:

In today's competitive business world, small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) need to know and use new technologies to be competitive. One case is about the challenges and advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in SMEs including corresponding training. AI technologies contribute at performance improvement in decision-making, acquisition, development, retention of employees, and last but not least protecting SMEs from cyber-attacks. Researchers explored the challenges and advantages of AI in SMEs and also their weak adoption. Lack of resources, expertise, initial costs, corresponding infrastructure, size of the company, and not suitable training are significant factors (Bunte, et al., 2021).

AI has applications in cybersecurity including Malware & phishing detection, Knowledge consolidation, Detection & prioritizing of new threats, Breach risk prediction, and Task automation.

Cybersecurity awareness training programs are important in protecting organizations and individuals against cyber threats.

In this paper, it is shown how Including knowledge about AI in interdisciplinary cybersecurity training could help learners to detect cyber threats.

Then it is exemplified how AI and Interdisciplinary training could be used for the development and assessment of suitable cybersecurity training particularly for employers and employees from SMEs. AI could engage employees with personalized and customized content and training approaches. So, cybersecurity awareness training should adapt to individual employee knowledge levels, learning styles, and areas for improvement – and so creating an optimal learning experience.

Keywords:

Artificial intelligence (AI), small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), Cybersecurity awareness training programs, project Interdisciplinary Cyber Training.