2018: The Year Machine Intelligence Arrived in Cybersecurity

Machine intelligence has become a technology player in fields from medical research to financial services. This year it began to make its presence felt in cybersecurity. The initial inroads have been tightly targeted, but some experts say more substantial uses are almost inevitable. "Intelligence" is a word heavily freighted with meaning in cybersecurity technology because it covers a wide variety of techniques and products. Expert systems, machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence are all represented in the whole, with each being used and promoted by different vendors and service organizations.