Deep Learning Is Our Best Hope for Cybersecurity, Deep Instinct Says

Thanks to the exponential growth of malware, traditional heuristics-based detection regimes have been overwhelmed, leaving computers at risk. Machine learning approaches can help, but the bottleneck presented by the feature engineering step is a potential dealbreaker. The best path forward at this point is deep learning, says the CEO of Deep Instinct, which claims to have taken an early lead in the emerging field. Ten years ago, the cybersecurity industry faced a dilemma. The volume of malware was exploding, with tens of thousands of new types discovered every day.