Is AI Resilient Enough for Security?

SIGNAL Magazine | October 22, 2018

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

Machines need to be hard to fool and reliable under pressure.

Artificial intelligence can be surprisingly fragile. This is especially true in cybersecurity, where AI is touted as the solution to our chronic staffing shortage.

It seems logical. Cybersecurity is awash in data, as our sensors pump facts into our data lakes at staggering rates, while wily adversaries have learned how to hide in plain sight. We have to filter the signal from all that noise. Security has the trifecta of too few people, too much data and a need to find things in that vast data lake. This sounds ideal for AI.