Japan leads push for AI-based anti-cyberattack solutions

  • 13 October 2015
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Alice MacGregor Mon 12 Oct 2015
 
                                               


 
 
Japanese firms NTT Communications and SoftBank are working to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, offering cyber-attack protection services to their customers.
 
The companies both highlight Big Data and analytics as holding great potential in the future of malware detection and preventing its distribution. However, current systems, which scan for illegal activity and shut down communication on detection, usually take between 8-15 minutes to identify new attacks due to the manual component.
 
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Now, this is interesting...thanks for the article, Jasper.  I was quite buoyed up until...one starts to extrapolate and consider what would happen if malware writers also start using AI-based cyberattack solutions...does not bear thinking about really but is just the nature of the battlefield. :(

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