SonicWall CEO: Putting malware cocktails on the menu with machine learning - Computer Business Review

SonicWall works with 18,000 partners, and CEO Bill Conner believes collaboration is central in cybersecurity. The cybersecurity industry is currently abuzz with talk of automation, principally the central role it will play in handling the mass of threats besieging organisations daily. Automation might be a current trend, but this does not mean it is an entirely new phenomenon, as some organisations have been repelling attacks with machine learning for years. One such company is internet security provider, SonicWall, and CBR spoke to the CEO of the company, Bill Conner, to gain insight on how it is taking on the threat landscape and keeping customers safe. Mr Conner said: "We have focussed on how to use software to isolate segments in your network; our firewalls have been using machine learning for over ten years. A malware cocktail is the easiest way to think of it, these three different technical engines are looking at every file that is unknown, and it is going to block that file from going in until it can characterise it and give it a green light in real time, it is all automated."