We hear it every day on the news: malicious hackers trying to wage on systems and business networks stealing data that they can then sell on the dark web. The increasingly sophisticated attack methods make it harder and harder for cybersecurity specialists to keep up the pace. Artificial intelligence such as IBM Watson for Cybersecurity can change how information security specialists defend against cyberattacks. Cognitive computing can blend human-generated security knowledge with more traditional security data, enabling computers to learn from data in a similar way to humans. Cyber security in the form of cognitive has the potential to significantly reduce incident response times, optimise the precision of alerts and keep up-to-date with the latest threat research.

In an international press release, IBM Watson have announced their beta program launch whereby Watson has recruited enterprises from auto, banking and insurance realms — including Sun Life Financial, University of Rochester Medical Centre, SCANA Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, California Polytechnic State University, University of New Brunswick, Avnet and Smarttech – to help research and develop new security applications that will use the systems natural language and machine learning techniques. For Smarttech, this means that with the help of IBM Watson, we are empowered to process and interpret unstructured data at great scale while having the ability to analyse thousands of reports, conference materials, papers, articles, blogs, and industry alerts daily.

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