Another year, another Security Analytics Summit. This year Kaspersky gathered an amazing set of speakers in Cancun, Mexico. I presented on AI & ML in Cyber Security – Why Algorithms Are Dangerous. I was really pleased how well the talk was received and it was super fun to see the storm that emerged on Twitter where people started discussing AI and ML.
Here are a couple of tweets that attendees of my talk tweeted out (thanks everyone!):
We don't really have AI yet. Algorithms are getting smarter, but experts are still more important. @raffaelmarty #TheSAS2018
— Chris Eng (@chriseng) March 9, 2018
"Machine Learning" is just statistics. @raffaelmarty #TheSAS2018
— Chris Eng (@chriseng) March 9, 2018
Experts are absolutely cruicial for #MachineLearning systems – @raffaelmarty #TheSAS2018 pic.twitter.com/5I6EY1QM3e
— Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) March 9, 2018
It's too easy to implement "AI" in your security product – algorithms are openly available. But the more important thing is a process of training, cleaning data sets, etc. And dealing with biases is super challenging – @raffaelmarty #TheSAS2018 pic.twitter.com/eii5W0vrWr
— Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) March 9, 2018
The following are some more impressions from the conference:
And here are the slides: