Artificial Intelligence Vs. Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence. That’s what the network security world is evolving into. Robots fighting each other on a micro level 24/7 to keep our private information safe. In the 21st century the majority of our data is stored in the “cloud” and over the years aspects of protecting this data have been slowly but surely over taken by Artificial Intelligence or “AI.” I believe that due to the complexity of network security, and how many variables are involved AI’s such as Google’s Deep Mind will automate the industry. Many would argue that this is not the case due to the variability of network security but this is simply not true. In today 's day and age Cyber Attacks happen in “micro-time” or on a millisecond basis,

Recently IT security officers from around the world gathered in Sydney, Australia to discuss the future of the role automation will play in Cyber Security. During this conference Robert Kingma, CEO of ICT Networks, reasserts “The speed of today’s security environment means that if a human is involved, an event will have moved past [network] security and is now a forensics case.” Here we see another leader in the industry doubling down on the inescapable fact that humans cannot defend against malicious attacks by automated bots in real time. So instead we need to employ the same tactics as the other side, use automated AI in such a way that we fight fire with fire. For example, James Sillence, senior manager of systems engineering at Juniper Networks argues that we need to respond to automated attacks in a similar fashion, otherwise “it becomes inevitable that at some point we will succumb to an attack.” Overall at this conference in Sydney all were in agreeance that a new age of cyber security is upon us, one in which Automation plays a key role in helping us defend against the growing pool of fast paced

It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn 't compete, and would be superseded.” Machine Learning. That’s how AI can learn to think in the way that humans do. Machine Learning is a field of computer science that focuses on giving computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. In layman’s terms this is the concept that you give a super computer a set of sensors, and a condition to achieve. Recently Google’s Deep Mind AI did just this, recreating from scratch human walking of all things. Here’s a short video to demonstrate my point;

Here Googles Deep Mind AI was given some sensors to see obstacles around it, and some basic models to work with. From there it was able to recreate walking, in a way that previously only humans have been able to do. As you can see, AI’s aren’t just stagnant pieces of code in today’s day and age. We have machines that learn from their own mistakes, in an effective and controlled environment. You can fool a human with the same trick twice, but not an