How artificial intelligence can stop the malware threats of the future

The threat landscape today is in a state of rapid growth and continuous change posing a serious risk to organisations' assets, reputations, and business. Conventional threat protection solutions have relied on a several techniques to prevent cyber infections. First, they rely on there being a patient zero – to write a signature for malware, legacy AV needs to have already seen it. Secondly, it relies on human experts – which is in short supply. However, ransomware attacks such as WannaCry, 'NonPetya' and the most recent attack, 'Bad Rabbit', continue to make headlines and infect hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe.