Artificial intelligence an essential security tool

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a trend in security but is becoming an essential tool for keeping up with cyber hackers, Channelnomics heard during BMC Exchange in New York, New York last week. During the event, Jon Fraser, managing director of service management at BMC channel partner Online Business Systems, said for his business, AI will make its biggest splash in the security space. "We're doing a lot of work in understanding how to use AI to protect and heal systems before a breach [in order to] make them stronger - prevent zero day attacks essentially," he told Channelnomics. The executive said the vast majority of today's breaches stem from failure to implement patches that could be over a year old, pointing to the Equifax hack. Not only will the threat of breaches drive demand for AI, according to Fraser, but use of the emerging technology will become a necessity, he said.