AI and machine learning in cybersecurity: Trends to watch

IT security teams today struggle to make sense of the enormous amounts of data modern IT infrastructures generate and consume, while simultaneously prioritizing and responding to alerts. This enormous responsibility is one of the reasons why detection and remediation times are so poor. In fact, a malicious attack has an average lifecycle of 314 days from breach to containment, according to the "2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report" by IBM. Manual and semiautomated checks and interventions cannot keep up with a constantly evolving threat landscape. And, with the average cost of a data breach estimated at $150 per record lost, according to the IBM study, a strong case can be made for automating many security tasks.