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Corporate pre-crime: The ethics of using AI to identify future insider threats

Issued by: CSO

To protect corporate networks against malware, data exfiltration and other threats, security departments have systems in place to monitor email traffic, URLs and employee behaviors. With artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, this data can also be used to make predictions. Is an employee planning to steal data? To defraud the company? To engage in…

Network Security

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Cybersecurity

Issued by: Dark Reading

The ability to learn gives security-focused AI and ML apps unrivaled speed and accuracy over their more basic, automated predecessors. But they are not a silver bullet. Yet. Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are not what most people imagine them to be. Far removed from R2-D2 or WALL-E, today’s bots, sophisticated algorithms, and…

Network Security

A Letter From the Future: It’s January 2019 and Hackers Are Stealing Your Data

Issued by: Security Intelligence

In my first LinkedIn article, I’d like to welcome you to the future. Not too far in to the future. But, it’s January 2019 and unfortunately cyber criminals are stealing your data. You’re scrambling to respond, hustling to contain, scurrying to an emergency board meeting. It’s a bad day. You may be thinking that this…

Malware & Threats

Tracking Malicious Insiders: Catch Me If You Can

Issued by: Security Intelligence

The idea of malicious insiders stealing valuable assets brings to mind a picture of masked men breaking into a bank vault or museum and making a getaway with their illicit stash. But what if the enemy is one of us — someone who knows exactly where we keep our most valuable items, how we safeguard…

Network Security

Machine Learning Is Our Best Weapon Against Spiraling Cyberthreats

Issued by: Security Intelligence

The security industry is facing a perfect storm created by the combination of an acute skill shortage, an expanding attack surface and increasingly sophisticated adversaries. As a result, the tactics that have served us in the past will no longer suffice. The only way to battle these mounting threats is through collaboration and the strategic use…

Network Security

Fortinet Enhances Network Security OS, Adds AI-based Threat Detection

Issued by: Security Week

Two major new product announcements were made at Fortinet’s Accelerate 18 conference this week, including a new machine learning (ML) threat intelligence and detection offering, along with a major upgrade to the Fortinet Security Fabric (FortiOS). Accelerate 18, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, is Fortinet’s annual global partner and user conference, attended by around 2,000…

Network Security

This Week in Security News: Senate Hearings and Equifax Breaches

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, leaders of six security agencies testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Equifax hack grew in severity, and hackers used the power of Machine Learning to spread…

Network Security

Seagate launches SkyHawk AI, the first HDD for AI-enabled surveillance

Issued by: Help Net Security

Seagate announced its SkyHawk AI hard disk drive, the first drive created specifically for artificial intelligence enabled video surveillance solutions. SkyHawk AI provides bandwidth and processing power to manage always-on, data-intensive workloads, while simultaneously analyzing and recording footage from multiple HD cameras.

Network Security

AI will change the face of security, but is it still the stuff of sci-fi?

Issued by: Help Net Security

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. Artificial intelligence is the latest technology to be seized by hype, due in part to its role as a staple of science fiction for decades…

Network Security

The untapped potential of machine learning for detecting fraud

Issued by: Help Net Security

E-commerce fraud protection company Signifyd has recently signed up behavioral analytics expert Long-Ji Lin to fill the position of Chief Scientist. “For advertisers, Lin perfected his model’s ability to predict which users would take each desired action, such as a clicking on an ad or purchasing from an advertiser. For e-commerce merchants, Lin is focused…