How A.I. Could Be Our Most Intelligent Defense

If you'll be attending the RSA Conference in February and are looking to learn some hacking tips and tricks, Cylance CEO and President Stuart McClure will be presenting on February 15th at 1:30 PM on Hacking Exposed NextGen. Stuart will demonstrate some live exploits and real-life hacking on everyday technology, and will also show you how to prevent them using simple countermeasures. We urge you to join Stuart for this amazing presentation at the Marriott Marquis in Yerba Buena 5. Reserve your seat today! In the meantime, get ready for RSA by watching Stuart's recent CBS News interview, during which he discusses why "who did the hacking" is a less important question than how to stop it: STUART: "Our approach is really quite different than anything else you'll find out there. We take a purely mathematical approach. We believe that you can actually identify attacks long before they ever start, and truly prevent them. This is done through what we call AI prediction. We've trained computers over millions and millions of files and attacks, to learn exactly what makes them up - the DNA of these attacks. By understanding the DNA mathematically, now we can prevent and protect against future attacks. So it looks like we're predicting attacks, when really, we've just learned through AI machine learning what the DNA of these attacks is. We see ourselves today as applying artificial intelligence to cybersecurity in a truly preventative and predictive way. We see the company expanding far beyond cybersecurity. The techniques that we are using are very applicable to other areas and fields of study. Anything that you want to try and classify effectively. For example, another application might be healthcare, or diagnostics - for example an MRI scan. Being able to detect early forms of cancer or disease. They take large amounts of data that you and I would fall asleep trying to process, and they never forget what they process. And they can learn from that to make decisions going forward."