If you’ve been watching, we’ve now entered the age of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and expanding automation. The capacity of modern computing to recognize patterns and make decisions based on boggling amounts of data has created new solutions and increasing customer expectations. Too many car accidents and mind-rending traffic? Self-driving cars might be the answer. Can’t get to the bank before it closes? There’s an app for that. Newspapers struggling to make ends meet? AI-based news bots churn out formulaic stories to reduce the cost of labor.
Cybersecurity is no different. Always an area of rapid advancement, the threat landscape now expands dizzyingly at the pace of hundreds of thousands of new attack variants every day. As the types of attacks broaden and the sophistication level deepens, we humans obviously need some help.
