Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we've discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we discuss the escalating significance of AI and machine learning in IT security space. One of an IT team's biggest challenges is making sense of the mammoth amount of data that corporate infrastructures produce and consume while identifying and responding to real-time cyberattacks. According to research conducted by the Ponemon Institute in its 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report, a cyberattack has an average lifecycle of 314 days from its launch to containment. This means detection and mitigation of the risks of a cyberattack are painfully time-consuming.