Machine learning: Disrupting the cyber security industry

Despite the emergence of apps like Slack and Yammer for internal employee communication, email is still the dominant form of external employee communication for enterprises. "In a similar way that computers, servers and devices communicate with one another through data packets transmitted via TCP/IP, employees communicate with one another through natural language and documents shared via email," says Bishop. Why are account takeovers on the rise? And how can businesses prevent this method of attack? Asaf Cidon, from Barracuda Networks, helps Information Age answer these questions. "When email was created in the early 1970s it was the first'killer app' for the web.