The Power of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity - insideBIGDATA

Machine learning is a buzzword that has picked up steam across several industries, and especially in the cybersecurity space we see more and more companies adding machine learning capabilities as a differentiator into their marketing materials. However, machine learning has been around for decades, and many security companies have been using it under the hood for a while. So what is changing, how much is hype and what shows promise? To better understand the value of machine learning, it's important to take a step back at how most security tools work. The traditional workhorses of cybersecurity have been signatures and heuristics.