The Wall Street Journal | By: Steven Norton | November 15, 2017:
The growing sophistication of fast-moving cyberattacks is forcing companies to employ similar technologies to defend themselves.
Artificial intelligence, growing more potent and easier to use, threatens to compound the already considerable challenges companies face as they deal with cyberattacks, researchers warn.
While rare, they say early signs of such advanced forms of attacks have already been detected.
Earlier this year, cybersecurity firm Darktrace Inc. spotted a never-before-seen attack at a client company in India that used rudimentary machine learning to observe and learn patterns of normal user behavior inside a network, Chief Executive Nicole Eagan said.
The software then began to mimic that normal behavior, effectively blending into the background and becoming harder for security tools to spot…
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