Why AI is set to play a big role in cyber security space

Derek Manky, global security strategist at Fortinet, said that the world is seeing more and more automation being built into black hat attackers' attack technology. What this means is, the time to respond to cyber-attack is shrinking drastically. Ten years ago, weeks or days to respond to a cyber-attack was adequate. Today, "we begin to measure in minutes (less than an hour)". "In the future, we will start measuring this in seconds. Humans cannot operate on this level, and therefore AI is crucial to respond at machine speed to the threat of cyber-attack," he said.