Gitex 2018 - Cybersecurity - AI

When I walked around the exhibition floor at this week’s massive GITEX 2018 in Dubai, it was interesting to see the number of companies promoting and marketing how they are using machine learning and artificial intelligence to help make the world a safer place.

However, it is worrying that vendors aren’t paying enough attention to the risks associated with relying heavily on these technologies. The security industry’s hunger for algorithms is understandable. It’s facing a tsunami of cyber attacks just as the number of devices being hooked up to the internet is exploding. At the same time, there’s a massive shortage of skilled cyber workers in the region.

Using machine learning and AI to help automate threat detection and response can ease the burden on employees, and potentially help identify threats more efficiently than other software-driven approaches.