Why Artificial Intelligence is Important for Cyber-Security

There is a lot of hype around artificial Intelligence, and while the technology can be useful, it does have limitations, according to RSA CTO Zulfikar Ramzan. Speaking at the Dell Technologies Experience at the South by South West (SXSW) event in Austin, Texas, on March 12, Ramzan detailed his views on AI in a session titled "AI: Boon or a Boondoggle?" "There is a tendency to think of AI as this all-encompassing panacea that can solve any problem," he said. Ramzan explained that AI can be somewhat of an abstract concept. What it basically means is that computers can be trained to be intelligent with certain kinds of tasks. Within AI, there is the subfield of machine learning, which he said is often used by people interchangeably with AI.