Opinion: AI and Machine Learning will power both Cyber Offense and Defense in 2020

Artificial intelligence and machine learning hold great promise for both defenders and attackers, making it one of the most important security trends to follow in 2020, says Gerald Beuchelt, the CISO of LogMeIn.* No matter how many brilliant security professionals and analysts you have in an organization, humans just can't keep up with the data processing, analysis and other tasks required to prevent attacks. That's why, when considering trends in cyber security for 2020, artificial intelligence (AI) and its subset machine learning should not be ignored. Here are some of the machine learning and artificial intelligence trends to pay attention to in 2020. According to a recent Capgemini report, 51% of organizations have a high utilization of AI for detection of cybersecurity threats.