Fighting Ransomware And Advanced Threats With Machine Learning

Keeping up with malware threats is no easy task when nearly 400,000 variants enter the landscape daily. Cybercriminals repeatedly find new ways to break into networks and steal data. For cybersecurity professionals, this requires a constant watchful eye on evolving threats to ensure the right defenses are in place.

The problem looms, however, that the rate of malware evolution now exceeds human capacity to manually detect, making analysis of the constant barrage of zero-day threats, ransomware and other previously unknown malware an increasingly difficult problem to solve. Humans need help from machines to keep up with the threat landscape – and this explains why security vendors have become very aggressive in promoting their machine learning capabilities.

But not all machine learning is created equal!