Security teams now operate in an environment where they face frequent and more potent threats as bad actors deploy increasingly innovative attacks – everything from more clever phishing schemes to turbocharged versions of ransomware. They are also hamstrung by the limitations of the state of the art in the field.
Thanks to advances in machine learning, businesses should soon be better equipped to detect abnormal network behavior and combat threats that now hide beneath the radar. Computer scientists are building systems that function in intelligent and cognitive ways and developing learning technologies that teach machines to identify threats.
