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EMERGING CYBERSECURITY
DevOps or a similar agile method is becoming mandatory if agencies want to stay ahead of adversaries.
efficient and innovative and could expose it to new vulnerabilities.
Going beyond the AI hype
There is a great deal of hype about artificial intelligence and machine learning, and
in some ways that hype overshadows the value of those solutions. For agencies, narrowing machine learning down to focus on a very specific problem can be extremely
beneficial. For example, the technology could support agencies’ security efforts by examining data that is often overlooked.
The typical agency has reams of data making its way to a security information and event management system or a log graveyard. Better inspection of all that data by a machine learning algorithm could offer unexpected insights and free highly trained security experts for higher-level activities.
Ultimately, emerging cybersecurity approaches are about choosing tools that fit into an agency’s automation flow, buying an outcome rather than just an appliance and using flexible approaches to help agencies respond more quickly to a continual flood of new vulnerabilities.
Patrick Sullivan is senior director of global security strategy at Akamai.
SECURITY THREATS MAY CHANGE,
BUT AKAMAI’S ABILITY TO STOP THEM DOES NOT.
Cyber security in a hyper-connected world requires enterprise protection at the Network, Application and Data Center.
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