Applying AI: getting underneath machine learning – Avira Insights

If you attended last year's RSA conference, you may have left with the idea that all you needed to build a complete cyber-security solution was a machine learning engine (or better yet, "advanced next-gen Artificial Intelligence"). Every cyber-security company uses machine learning (or AI) because it is a powerful technique for malware analysis. But it is by no means the only one. Applied naïvely, it may not even work effectively. Sometimes, a powerful scanning engine is all that is required (it's'cheap'), or even just a great database of known malware hashes (it's fast).