AI, Cybersecurity, & The Data Trap: You Don't Know Normal

BILLINGTON CYBERSECURITY SUMMIT: Artificial Intelligence has a big big-data problem when it comes to network defense, senior defense officials warned this afternoon. Sure, AI can pounce on a problem in a microsecond, long before a human operator can react. All you need to do is train the machine-learning algorithms. So you let the AI prowl through every computer, smartphone, server, router, Internet connection, etc. until the algorithm learns what normal looks like on your network. Then the AI can sit back and watch every passing bit and byte, ready to jump on any anomalous activity from malware slipping in as an email attachment to a disgruntled employee downloading all your sensitive files, Edward Snowden-style.