AI and ML in Cybersecurity Part 1: Don't Believe the Hype! …Yet - Soliton Cyber & Analytics

If you listen at all to industry news, you can't escape the onslaught of marketing hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Is SkyNet ready to take over the world? Despite the optimism and promise, AI and ML largely remain in an immature stage where they suffer mistakes and biases from classic programming issues, which we will explore below: garbage-in, garbage-out and poor quality control. Still, with the potential for huge benefits on the horizon, we cannot simply reject security tools that have tried to incorporate these advances. Instead, we need to create a strategy for adoption that provides a safety net for failure through overlapping technology – just as we do for any other security product. AI will be eventually be good.