How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Face of Cyber Security

Let's inject a virus into the attacking alien spacecraft and save Earth! Let's hack into the enemy mainframe with six keystrokes and abort the torpedo launch! Cybersecurity has long been a staple of science fiction, whether it's in movies like "Independence Day" or television shows like "Star Trek." Yet in our real 21st Century world, artificial intelligence is the new face of cybersecurity, even if it doesn't sound like Hal from "2001: A Space Odyssey." The most obvious place for added intelligence is to detect whether some pattern of network traffic is benign or hostile.