The Walls of Constantinople and the new era of cyberwarfare

Several startups have already begun experimenting with various approaches to using AI for security. One of the most interesting approaches is using the human body as a paradigm: invaders such as microbes and viruses are defended by our immunity system, so why not copy the same mechanism? Gerald Edelman, the Nobel laureate who discovered how the immunity system works, would have been proud of such creative out-of-the-box thinking. Indeed, Edelman had the unique insight that the human brain may also be working on a similar principle: neurons forming groups through adaptation to regular or frequent signals. Machine Learning seems to verify his insight where neural nets monitor systems and user behaviour for anomalies and thus "learn" how to defend effectively against real threats.