Machines ease cyber security industry talent crunch

Recruiting cyber security experts is becoming a challenge for companies, as skilled staff are in short supply -- but artificial intelligence is coming to the rescue. If there are enough experts around to make the AI work, that is. While AI is already taking the pressure off overstretched cyber security teams, the skills required from professionals are changing rapidly as the technology evolves. This is forcing companies to choose between retraining existing staff or hiring fresh talent. Machine learning -- which enables computers to identify and predict anomalies from previously observed patterns in large amounts of information -- is ideally suited to monitoring growing volumes of data for potential security breaches and cutting cyber security teams' workloads.