Are You Still Doing Cybersecurity Without Machine Learning? Think Again.

When it comes to sensitive data leak, time is of the essence. It doesn't take long for a leak to turn into a data breach. A few weeks ago, Comparitech's security research team set up a honeypot simulating a database on an ElasticSearch instance, and put fake user data inside of it. The first attack came less than 9 hours after deployment. In order to beat attackers, you can either compete on equal grounds and use an internet-of-things search engine like Shodan.io or BinaryEdge, via a combination of random manual searches and Python scripts.