Artificial intelligence in cybersecurity- Caleb Fenton answers readers' questions

Is AI the Silver Bullet of Cybersecurity? Two years ago, I talked about how we were in the early stages of the artificial intelligence revolution and how to evaluate AI in security products. Since then, AI research continues to blow minds, particularly with Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), which are being used to clone voices, generate big chunks of coherent text, and even create creepy pictures of faces of people who don't exist. With all these cool developments making headlines, it's no wonder that people want to understand how AI works and how it can be applied to different industries like cyber security. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a silver bullet in security, and you should run away from anyone who says they're selling one. Security will always be an arms race between attackers and defenders.