By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Advancing trustworthy AI and machine learning to mitigate agency risk is a priority for the US Department of Energy (DOE), and identifying best practices for implementing AI at scale is a priority for the US General Services Administration (GSA). That’s what attendees learned in two sessions at the AI […]
Between the disclosures this year about Facebook’s lax data sharing policies and the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), a lot of people are talking about data privacy and consumer rights. How much data should you share as a consumer with companies like Facebook or Google? But what about businesses? Enterprise organizations may be […]
The mantra of modern technology is to improve and innovate continuously. It makes sense as we strive to look for more improved ways to get processes, actions and activities done. Automation and machine learning, for instance, is currently used across many industries to streamline basic processes and remove the repetition from a normal worker’s routine. […]
From ransomware to botnets, malware takes seemingly endless forms, and it’s forever proliferating. Try as we might, the humans who would defend our computers from it are drowning in the onslaught, so they are turning to AI for help. There’s just one problem: machine-learning tools need a lot of data. That’s fine for tasks like […]
If you want to understand what’s happening with artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity, look no further than this week’s news. On Monday, Palo Alto Networks introduced Magnifier, a behavioral analytics solution that uses structured and unstructured machine learning to model network behavior and improve threat detection. Additionally, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced Chronicle, a cybersecurity […]
Allure Security today announced the close of a $5.3 million seed funding round. (Allure executives are shown above.) The company will use the investment to further innovate its industry-first data loss detection and response (DDR) platform and to continue to add key personnel to its new Boston-area headquarters. Allure’s first-ever VC round is led by […]
Bruce Schneier is scary smart. The things he talks about – AI weaponization, remote hacking of commercial airliners and self-driving cars, malicious alteration of medical records – are scarier. The author of 13 books, including the cleverly titled Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World – and hundreds of articles and academic […]
Terbium Labs, focused on intelligence about the dark web, recently announced a $6 million investment led by Glasswing Ventures, bringing the total raised by the company to $15 million. Terbium Labs will use the new funding to extend its geographical footprint, bolster channel relationships with managed security service provider (MSSP) partners, and continue to innovate […]
Like death and taxes, there are only two safe predictions about cybersecurity in 2018: There will be more spectacular data breaches and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25. But as the continuing digital transformation of our lives entails the ongoing digital transformation of crime, vandalism and warfare, 2018 could […]
Police in the US state of Delaware are poised to deploy “smart” cameras in cruisers to help authorities detect a vehicle carrying a fugitive, missing child or straying senior. The video feeds will be analyzed using artificial intelligence to identify vehicles by license plate or other features and “give an extra set of eyes” to […]
