#RSAC: Panel Discussion on the Role of Machine Learning & AI in Cyber

A panel of industry experts gathered at RSA 2018 in San Francisco to explore the role that machine learning and artificial intelligence is playing in the current cyber landscape. After opening the discussion by asking the panel to each give their own definition of what machine learning is, Ira asked the speakers to define what types of applications are most appropriate for the use of machine learning and AI. Hillard: The places where it is most mature is around speech and image processing, and also around fraud detection. "The technology should be an enabler to solving a problem but sometimes it gets lost in what's being accomplished." Friedrichs: Most people have woken up to the fact that machine learning and AI are not the panacea that marketing tells us they are, but they can add to the feature set of a product.