Do you believe it when cyber security solutions claim they’re using AI?
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I have no reason to believe they not using AI, my interest are centered on how effective they are using it. I do believe the security industry needs effective AI in our defense , you can feel very confident that the malicious actors at a nation state level are going to use AI against organizations. So your defense needs to be keeping up in the weapons race for lack of a better analogy.
It depends! On how do you define AI. As per Wikipedia and AI Text: “any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.” So, some of the cyber security solutions do detect threats/intrusions and informs (action!) and hence may qualify under AI. However, a lot more could be done in terms of false positives and automatic actions.
Unfortunately, so far every vendor that has touted AI or ML in recent pictures is not actually using either. It is the cool new buzzword like blockchain was a couple years ago
I agree to Nathan, it's more ML than AI
No, I do not believe that any one of them is using it. The majority have implemented automation and analytics over the data, and few might be using machine learning to understand the data, but definitely, none of them is yet using AI.
AI in itself is at a nascent stage and it will take few more years to use in security products, but that does not mean to not believe in them. Because they are striving to use AI and working towards developing it to be used in their products and services.