By Dick Wilkinson, C|CISO
The buzzword for 2019 that we have all heard a thousand times is Artificial Intelligence, AI. This term has been placed on products ranging from smartwatches to washing machines and of course every security tool on the market. Advertisements lead us to believe that if you couldn’t find a way to shoehorn AI into your product in 2019, you might as well admit defeat before you even get to market. The term AI conjures up science fiction fantasy and makes us believe that the future really is now. People like to hear it and marketing teams like to sell it, but what does AI have to offer in the cybersecurity industry?
The term AI is often interchanged with machine learning. The process that is commonly applied is to collect a very large data set about some type of function, feature, behavior or use case; and then use that large data set to create some kind of predictable pattern. When you can refine your pattern of prediction to something with reliable outcomes you can integrate it into your tools and call it machine learning. If you can teach the machine to continue to collect data on its own and refine the predictions on its own, then…
