When PR and reality collide: The truth about machine learning in cybersecurity

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  1. itman

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    https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/04/18/pr-reality-collide-truth-machine-learning-cybersecurity/
     
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    http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerab...re-now-evades-machine-learning/d/d-id/1328506
     
  3. Peter2150

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    No surprise to me.
     
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    same here, there is no machine learning , it is just marketing crap , as if i add a new airbag mechanism in a car that can analyze the intensity of the impact and decide if it needs to be deployed by itself... i didn't add some kind of "intelligence" to the mechanism, just tweaked the threshold of the vibration sensor.... and this exactly what it is with ML , just more advanced heuristic algorithm, no "Ai" at all.
    You will have ML when you will have Skynet... :D
     
  6. XhenEd

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    There is machine learning. Machine learning, however, is only a subset of the whole Artificial Intelligence. ML, in itself, is not AI. From what I read, to form true AI, machine learning and other subsets/layers must be together, coordinating with each other. So, AI is the umbrella term, while ML, and other subsets, is only a part of it.

    The issue is whether ML is effective enough to combat malware, or that it is used properly by cybersecurity companies.

    Popular examples of machine learning are some chess programs.
     
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    Important to prospective purchasers of this new technology is which methods of machine learning security software actually employ AI.

    Chess programs use AI algorithms whereas checkers programs do not not; they use pattern matching as noted in the link I posted in reply #4.
     
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