Why Machine Learning Is Our Last Hope for Cybersecurity

These use cases–and so many more–all owe a debt to machine learning. By automatically discovering patterns that lead to insights and creating predictive models that drive actions, the technology has proven its value many times, and to many industries. More recently, machine learning has begun to make a name for itself in the field of cybersecurity. There are multiple reasons that manual cybersecurity practices on their own are no longer sufficient to protect businesses, governments and other organizations. All of these issues are further aggravated by the fact that threats are growing in scale and complexity.