Oracle bets on supervised machine learning for cybersecurity edge

Oracle are poised to help customers make the leap from on premise, up into the cloud. At Infosecurity Europe 2017, you couldn't escape the buzz of what will may soon become the next great battle on the cybersecurity frontier – automation. However, the belief that automation is a cyber security silver bullet is not one that is well believed it seems, with Oracle's Rohit Gupta telling CBR that not all situations can be solely monitored by technology. "There are certain conditions where automation will never be accepted. As an example, let's say the system discovers something suspicious going on in an executive's credentials, the CFO's credentials. You don't want to turn off the access between the CFO and his or her system, that could be career suicide, you never want that to happen. "In that scenario you have policy in place that says for these specific types of roles, or these specific types of entitlements, I want to have human intervention – somebody to look over this detected issue ...