Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity, with defenders using it to respond to and predict threats and attackers using it to launch even more refined attacks. For example, AI algorithms can send'spear phishing' tweets (personalized tweets sent to targeted users to trick them into sharing sensitive information) six times faster than a human and with twice the success. The enlargement of attack surface and the increased sophistication of attacks has made AI a key weapon in thwarting cyberattacks, Capgemini found. Cyber analysts are finding it increasingly difficult to effectively monitor current levels of data volume, velocity, and variety across firewalls, prompting organizations to turn to artificial intelligence. In fact, Capgemini found that 61 percent of organizations acknowledge they wouldn't be able to identify critical threats without AI.

WIRE)--Blue Hexagon, a leading agentless cloud-native AI platform, today announces CRN's recognition of Blue Hexagon in the "10 Hottest AI Security Companies You Need to Know." This acknowledgment signifies the work Blue Hexagon has devoted to active and continuous AI-driven cloud security and network threat detection and response (NDR). As the leading cloud security platform, for actionable visibility, real-time threat defense and continuous compliance, this underscores Blue Hexagon's commitment to delivering innovative solutions to customers who need to secure their data, network and workloads in the public cloud. Blue Hexagon's deep learning models automatically analyze millions of traits within payloads, protocols, and headers to identify a wide variety of known and unknown file-based and protocol-based threats, in less than a second. The company's technology can analyze cloud configurations, cloud storage activity, and the entire threat kill chain in real time, without the burden of deploying and managing agents.

BlackBerry Protect is an artificial intelligence-based endpoint protection platform that blocks breaches and provides added controls for safeguarding against sophisticated cyberthreats. The platform does this without user or admin intervention, a cloud connection, signatures, heuristics, or sandboxes required. AI detects and prevents attacks before they can execute, preventing BlackBerry customers from opening URLs or visiting spoofing pages mimicking those of legitimate websites. BlackBerry's resilient AI model prevents zero-day payloads from executing, while the company's field-proven AI inspects any application attempting to execute on an endpoint before it executes. BlackBerry Protect also leverages AI to automatically detect and stop malicious URLs, including those with embedded phishing elements.