How machine learning can help the security industry

Machine learning (ML) is such a hot area in security right now. At the 2016 RSA Conference, you would be hard pressed to find a company that is not claiming to use ML for security. To the layperson, ML seems like the magic solution to all security problems. Take a bunch of unlabeled data, pump it through a system with some ML magic inside, and it can somehow identify patterns even human experts can't find -- all while learning and adapting to new behaviors and threats. Rather than having to code the rules, these systems can discover the rules all by themselves.