It's AI versus the hackers - Enterprise & Hybrid Cloud Services

Google now checks for security breaches even after a user has logged in. Last year, Microsoft Corp's Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company's administrators, who usually logs on from New York, was trying to gain entry from Romania. A hacker had broken in. Microsoft quickly alerted its customer, and the attack was foiled before the intruder got too far. Inc and various start-ups are moving away from solely using older "rules-based" technology designed to respond to specific kinds of intrusion and deploying machine-learning algorithms that crunch massive amounts of data on logins, behaviour and previous attacks to ferret out and stop hackers.