Harnessing Artificial Intelligence To Build an Army of Virtual Analysts

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 4, 2016 @05:48AM from the must-use-the-phrase-do-my-bidding dept.

An anonymous reader writes: PatternEx, a startup that gathered a team of AI researcher from MIT CSAIL as well as security and distributed systems experts, is poised to shake up things in the user and entity behavior analytics market. Their goal was to make a system capable of mimicking the knowledge and intuition of human security analysts so that attacks can be detected in real time. The platform can go through millions of events per day and can make an increasingly better evaluation of whether they are anomalous, malicious or benign.

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Hmmm ... by gstoddart · 2016-02-04 05:53 · Score: 3, Funny

So, when they publish their findings will someone modify it to make an army of virtual hackers?
Because that would be awesome.

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Be careful of what you wish for... by __aaclcg7560 · 2016-02-04 05:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Their goal was to make a system capable of mimicking the knowledge and intuition of human security analysts so that attacks can be detected in real time.
That boils down to letting the expensive firewalls do their job and checking the log files later on. Meanwhile, back to minesweeper.