AI isn’t just for the good guys anymore

Last summer at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, the  DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge  pitted automated systems against one another, trying to find weaknesses in the others’ code and exploit them.

“This is a great example of how easily machines can find and exploit new vulnerabilities, something we’ll likely see increase and become more sophisticated over time,” said David Gibson, vice president of strategy and market development at  Varonis Systems.

His company hasn’t seen any examples of hackers leveraging artificial intelligence technology or machine learning, but nobody adopts new technologies faster than the sin and hacking industries, he said.

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Article reprinted at Networks Asia.