Feds in Two Minds About Artificial Intelligence Defense – MeriTalk

As Feds get smarter about Artificial Intelligence on the cyber frontier, seems agencies' IT defenders are suffering from schizophrenia about cyber cyborgs. Where 90 percent of cyber folks swoon about AI as the fix for the cyber sieve, almost half of Feds suffer AI anxiety disorder. With the exponential increase in cyber attacks and insider-threat nightmares, now's a fascinating time to consider AI's role in cybersecurity. We see Kevin Cox and the CDM program office exploring AI–and every cyber vendor's touting its new AI pixie dust. Clearly Feds recognize the challenges associated with Uncle Sam's thin-blue line on the cyber frontier.