In a recent Finjan blog ‘Why Can’t Network Security Get Ahead of the Bad Guys?’, we wrote about the difficulty of staying ahead of hackers and attackers. To help address this issue, one industry bright spot is the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to provide a programmatic approach to building and maintaining improved cybersecurity. In this … Read More
Artificial Intelligence vs Ransomware – Creating More Effective Defenses with Machine Learning
Since 2016 – when a hospital in Los Angeles paid US$17,000 (£14,000) to cure itself of an infection – the healthcare sector in particular and the world, in general, have suffered the effects of a sporadic outbreak of ransomware attacks. Though viruses and other strains of malware can cause headaches, data corruption, and financial losses, they tend to do so … Read More
The Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity
It’s often been observed that technological advancement is a double-edged sword – and this is especially true in the realm of cybersecurity. Attackers have been known to use automation technology to stage and sustain their strikes – while those same machine learning algorithms and real-time response mechanisms can help enterprises that suffer an assault to speed up their efforts at … Read More