{"id":32015,"date":"2018-05-25T02:39:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=32015"},"modified":"2018-05-25T03:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T19:04:32","slug":"machines-wont-replace-humans-yet-according-to-tech-and-security-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/05\/25\/machines-wont-replace-humans-yet-according-to-tech-and-security-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Machines won\u2019t replace humans\u2026 yet, according to tech and security experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026but AI should be tapped to help analysts deal with cyber threats better.<\/em><\/p>\n

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA \u2013 \u201cThere are not enough workers on cybersecurity and yet the threats are so many. The threat landscape is accelerating because we now have attack vectors we never had before,\u201d said Greg Martin, CEO and co-founder of JASK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greg Martin said that \u2013 at least in our lifetime \u2013 \u201cwhat AI won\u2019t do is take humans out. I believe in five to 10 years AI will deal with (many of our security) issues, but the best defense is still the human mind behind the keyboard.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

In North America alone, it is estimated that there are three million cybersecurity jobs that are unfilled. This is why, \u201cif we don\u2019t develop AI to help the analysts to deal with cyber threats, we\u2019re going to have bigger threats. The goal should always be to answer \u2018How can we accelerate of cybersecurity workers?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Here, AI (artificial intelligence) comes in handy, as it \u201caccelerates what we\u2019re already doing with human workers (by) making machines do the work \u2013 e.g. high frequency pattern matching.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Martin said that \u2013 at least in our lifetime \u2013 \u201cwhat AI won\u2019t do is take humans out. I believe in five to 10 years AI will deal with (many of our security) issues, but the best defense is still the human mind behind the keyboard.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is why, added Kumud Kalia, CIO of Cylance, \u201cthe approach for us (should be) to embed AI in our functions.\u201d This is because \u201cthe security analyst is often overwhelmed by information\u2026 The challenge is to keep everything organized and up to date so there won\u2019t be weak links that can be exploited.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are also newer threats emerging. For instance, according to Martin, \u201ccyber weapon is the new norm. We know government entities are using this. And so if this leaks out\u2026 the ramifications can be quite scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so \u201cwe need to learn how to recalibrate our solutions\u2026 so low and slow attacks can be detected. And this is also where machine learning is helping out.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Slavik Markovich, CEO and co-founder of DEMISTO, it isn\u2019t just the threats that are growing in number; even the security tools are growing, too. And \u201cthe only way to bridge the gap is to automate as much as possible the workload and the worker that the threats go through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Currently, there continues to be different concepts of AI. But for Markovich, no matter the iteration, \u201cthe big dream is for AI to solve all our problems; just throw stuff to it, and it will solve everything. But we\u2019re still far from that, we\u2019re not there yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And so, again, \u201cthe goal now (pertaining security management) is on how to make analysts be productive.\u201d In the end, if AI can help answer: \u2018What are the actions that the analysts do in day-to-day and how it can be used if newer threats come in?\u2019, then \u201cwe can develop sequences of actions on how to deal with incidences as they arise,\u201d Markovich ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greg Martin said that \u2013 at least in our lifetime \u2013 \u201cwhat AI won\u2019t do is take humans out. I believe in five to 10 years AI will deal with (many of our security) issues, but the best defense is still the human mind behind the keyboard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[4751,853,5358,1481,54],"class_list":["post-32015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-spotlight","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cyber-attack","tag-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}