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Booz Allen to Acquire AI-based Morphick
2017-10-20 17:38

Contracting giant Booz Allen is to acquire cybersecurity firm Morphick. Few details have been made public -- there is no statement on the price involved nor the future of existing Morphick staff....

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The Challenge of Training AI to Detect Unique Threats
2017-10-03 12:22

In a previous column, I discussed how traditional endpoint security fails because it focuses on detecting known bad instances. As evidenced by the rapid rise of email-based attacks, this is a...

Get the Most Cybersecurity Value from AI
2017-09-29 15:18

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are among the top industry buzzwords of the year. But how can AI truly make a significant impact on organizations' cybersecurity operations? Brian...

AI will change the face of security, but is it still the stuff of sci-fi?
2017-09-18 13:00

The technology industry has always had a big problem with hype, with marketing teams, analysts and the media alike tending to fixate on the next big thing that will revolutionise our lives....

When AI and security automation become foolish and dangerous (Help Net Security)
2017-08-30 13:30

There is a looming fear across all industries that jobs are at risk to artificial intelligence (AI), which can perform those same jobs better and faster than humans. A recent Forrester report...

AI is key to speeding up threat detection and response (Help Net Security)
2017-08-14 17:15

Time is the most important factor in detecting network breaches and, consequently, in containing cyber incidents and mitigating the cost of a breach. “Security event investigations can last hours,...

Defensive AI system implements strategies from the best analysts (Help Net Security)
2017-07-27 13:00

Champion Technology Company, developer of DarkLight, an AI expert system for active cyber defense and trusted information sharing, today released their latest technology update with DarkLight 3.0....

AI technologies will be in almost every new software product by 2020 (Help Net Security)
2017-07-18 13:49

Market hype and growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) are pushing established software vendors to introduce AI into their product strategy, creating considerable confusion in the...

Barracuda Launches AI-based Spear Phishing Detection (Security Week)
2017-06-29 06:31

Barracuda Networks this week announced its new Sentinel product: an artificial intelligence (AI) powered spear-phishing and business email compromise (BEC) realtime detection and prevention...

Week in review: Evaluating AI-based cyber security systems, how CIA hit air-gapped computers (Help Net Security)
2017-06-26 02:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: How the CIA gained access to air-gapped computers A new WikiLeaks release of documents believed to have been stolen...