Project STAMINA Uses Deep Learning for Innovative Malware Detection

You’re familiar with the phrase, “A picture is worth 1,000 words.” Well, Microsoft and Intel are applying this philosophy to malware detection—using deep learning and a neural network to turn malware into ...

Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Neural Networks, Oh My!

Deep learning makes decisions based upon the data it sees and the data that it doesn’t see but infers from what it does see. This became useful in the AV industry when ...
Open Raven

Concentric Applies Deep Learning Algorithms to Data Security

Fresh off raising an additional $7 million in funding, Concentric has launched a tool that employs deep learning algorithms to enable cybersecurity teams to identify documents and repositories where sensitive data has ...
Security Boulevard
ACM Presents 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award to Deep Learning Pioneers

ACM Presents 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award to Deep Learning Pioneers

The Association for Computing Machinery has announced the presentation of the 2018 ACM Turing Award to a trio of Deep Learning pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun & Yoshua Bengio. Congratulations! "ACM named ...
AI as Snake Oil

The Buzz at RSAC 2019: Has AI Been Reduced to Snake Oil?

The expansion of Moscone Center is complete, and despite the rain, the overall enthusiasm at last week’s RSA Conference was high. With an estimated 50,000 attendees visiting the displays of 700 vendors, ...
Automating Cyber-Defense

Automating Cyber-Defense

AI has potential to make the lives of security professionals a lot easier – but it should be approached with caution. Deep learning is a useful tool to optimize and validate security ...
ML firewalls

Symantec Acquisitions Further AI Strategy

Symantec this week moved this week to expand its portfolio of security offerings by acquiring Appthority and Javelin Networks as part of a larger artificial intelligence (AI) strategy being driven by a ...
Security Boulevard

How Deep Learning Is Making Computers Better at Guessing Your Passwords

Recently, researchers from The New York Institute of Technology and the Stevens Institute of Technology computer science department released a paper about using a relatively new machine learning technique to make computers ...
Machine Learning (are you smarter than a toaster?)

Machine Learning (are you smarter than a toaster?)

at the moment… maybe. Machine Learning I’ve heard the phrase Machine Learning banging around the media more intensely over the past few years and you know what that means… I’m not happy ...
Cybersecurity and Machine Learning/AI: What’s the Real Impact?

Cybersecurity and Machine Learning/AI: What’s the Real Impact?

Will AI render human analysts obsolete, or be an extension that helps them be more effective? How about bad guys? Are we headed for an AI showdown? Here’s the lay of the ...