It has become rather apparent the global cyber security sector may need a major overhaul in the coming years. If it is up to the city of Las Vegas, that fight will be won by deploying an artificial intelligence solution. That is quite an interesting solution to tackle the problem, although it remains to be seen how things will play out over the coming years. Contrary to what people may believe, the city of Las Vegas does not have the best IT staff. To be more specific, there are three employees and one intern for the entire city.

Using a system that MIT is calling AI2, which was developed by the institute's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, researchers have made it easier for humans to detect network breaches. Finding the evidence of a compromised network is a daunting take for security experts, at least for humans. The system MIT has developed doesn't sleep and can sift through millions of log lines looking for abnormalities before bringing them to an analyst's attention. After AI2 has found an anomaly following a review of data, it points out abnormalities to a human who takes over and has a thorough look at AI2's findings. According to the researchers, this human/AI team identified just shy of 90% of attacks while saving the human component hours and hours of time by not chasing after false leads.