Cybersecurity: machine learning to be the main focus in 2018

In a landscape marked by an explosion in the number of security incidents, machine learning should be the main focal point in 2018. The promise of automated learning is of as much interest to hackers as it is to companies concerned with protecting their informational assets. The subject has even made it onto McAfee's 2018 five most important trends in cyber security. Identified as one of this year's biggest issues, machine learning has some very diverse applications in the world of cyber security. For example, it can be used to analyse the activities carried out by an authentication service so as to trigger an alert or block access when abnormal behaviour is detected.