Getting AI to Fight Back Against the Attacks of Tomorrow - Tech Wire Asia

Those bemoaning the amount of spam in their email account's inbox (offers of suspiciously cheap Rolexes, notifications of windfalls, requests to help transfer funds from African states) may not be aware that spam exists for one reason: it works. In a similar way, because the profits from successful cybercrime are very healthy, specific individuals and organizations will always spend time and effort learning clever exploits and methods, because, on occasion, those methods work. Cybercrime is therefore here to stay, and because both end-users and cyber specialists are becoming better educated as to attackers' methods, the threat landscape will not only shift constantly but also become more complex, as methods used by bad actors will become more – although this is not intended as a compliment – intelligent. In general, companies of all sizes have deployed a combination of three cybersecurity measures. The first is a suite of pre-programmed (albeit occasionally updated) databases of known threats: their signatures, techniques, and modus operandi.