Information security, artificial intelligence and legacy information systems

Information security plays a significant role in the success of organizations (organizations: all types and sizes). Information security will improve when organizations understand the direct and indirect relationships between information security, artificial intelligence (AI), and legacy information system (LIS) efficiency levels and work based on this understanding. Applying AI solutions (solutions: all types of systems, applications, technologies, programs, techniques, and/or ideas) at organizations offers the automated ability to store, analyze, and restore data and information to use it to solve LIS problems. The problem that has been addressed was the information security damages (damages: all types of damages, problems, and/or loss) that occur due to the absence of the AI solutions at organizations, the harmful outcomes on the LIS information security levels, and whether the AI is the stable solution for the information security and LIS problems or not. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to investigate AI analysts' perceptions about the relationships between AI solutions that aim to keep LIS information security at the highest levels and to suggest AI as the stable solution for the information security and LIS problems. The study also investigated the perceptions of AI analysts of the positive and negative aspects of the advanced AI techniques applied to the information systems process. The study analyzed the gaps between current AI solutions and the current research efforts to further the use of AI towards full control of information security. Purposive sampling used to recruit seven AI systems specialists from different organizations within the United States that use AI technology. Participants were AI systems specialists above the age of 18, male or female, any ethnicity, or cultural background with at least an Associate's degree in a related major and should be currently working (at the time of the interview) in the same field under any job title or level to qualify. The direct, simple, and clear meaning of the findings of the study can be summarized in one sentence. The AI is the stable solution for the information security and LIS problems. AI provides organizations with several important advantages such as saving time, money, energy, and preventing and avoiding errors. AI can evaluate, upgrade, reengineer, or replace LIS automatically without human interference, besides the employees that maintain AI systems. Most important, it is highly recommended that organizations should be made aware of the long list of benefits of applying AI solutions to their LIS. Lastly, applying AI solutions to LIS should reduce technical difficulties, and lower the risks of human errors as AI solutions can self-diagnose and repair.