How A.I. could be our most intelligent defense against hackers
It’s by now a familiar cycle: news breaks that troves of sensitive data from some key database, server or system have been compromised, and a game of high-level speculation — engaging the most sophisticated reporters, techies, wonks, and public officials nationwide — is underway.
But, in an age in which cyber attacks are multiplying in frequency, intensity and scale, we’ve gotten used to asking the wrong questions, Cylance CEO Stuart McClure told CBS News.
“The jump to the ‘Who?’ really does us a disservice,” McClure, speaking from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Thursday in Davos, said. In reality, chasing attribution for cyber attacks is “almost 100 percent fruitless” given how easy it is to cover and obscure one’s tracks, he said.
