Embracing AI for Cyber Defense

Online crime cost the world more than half a trillion dollars in 2018, recent data breaches and attacks have managed to influence elections, and even our energy grids face the threat of cyber-attack. This troubling state of affairs is the product of several fundamental weaknesses with the traditional approach to cyber defense, which relies on predefining what threats look like at a time when criminals launch never-before-seen attacks on a daily basis. These attacks increasingly strike at machine-speed, preventing security professionals from responding before their damage is done.