Why being human still matters in the world of cybersecurity

Disciplines such as artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing increasingly important role in cyber security, but not at the expense of human intellect. This is one of the key messages from the first day of McAfee MPOWER, the company's annual security conference in Las Vegas. Indeed, one of the company's two new product launches, Investigator, has this complementary approach of human and machine at its very heart. "I think cyber security is a fundamentally different field to many other areas where artificial intelligence, machine learning is being used, Grobman said. "The example I like to give is weather forecasting [because] as we get better at forecasting weather, the laws of physics don't get upset and decide to change the way water evaporates.