Jane Edwards
Robert Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said enabling real-time decision-making in the field of cybersecurity is important and artificial intelligence and machine learning hold promise in automating that decision-making process.
Carey said in a podcast posted Tuesday that organizations need to know how they can take advantage of big data platforms that could help speed up the processing of large data volumes and enable their existing cybersecurity toolset to work better.
“We’re starting that with AI and ML. To be able to use those technologies to teach them through a model what they are looking for from a behavioral standpoint, not from a signature standpoint,” he said.
“We do a lot of signature-based stuff today in cyber. That’s what patching is all about. … Today, you have to get faster than that. We have to be able to make a decision, disposition malware before it does its thing so automation comes into play. AI is that technology that can be utilized to initiate automated dispositioning of malware,” Carey added.
He noted that training and teaching algorithms to operate in cyberspace in a predictive manner is a complicated task and that organizations should clean up and enrich the data first “so that the models you’ve trained to look for certain things will work.”
