AI becomes standard in 2018

A recent survey by market research and consulting firm IDC and Sophos confirms machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have great potential: de facto, ML and AI are already standard in IT security.

To reduce disruptions to business processes, more and more companies are turning to these technologies. The majority (86 percent) of respondents are aware of the threat to their company's security.

90 percent stated that they had already identified IT security incidents. As a result, the majority (75 percent) have already invested in modernizing IT security in recent years.

That's good, because the frequency, aggressiveness and scenarios of the attacks are putting a strain on the security situation in Germany. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are important technologies for 72 percent of respondents to improve IT security.

Your benefit: You keep the attack surface as small as possible - the attacks on network, applications and data are a combination of known and unknown attack vectors.

And they strengthen protective mechanisms in advance, since the "unknown" can also be detected and averted more quickly on the basis of self-learning systems.

Only nine percent of respondents have left these two technologies out of their IT security. All other companies are planning to use them (40 percent) or are already implementing them partially (21 percent) or comprehensively (19 percent) in their security.