“Much of the investment that’s going into the cybersecurity space to fuel the development of automation is directed at responding to cybersecurity incidents. Currently, humans are the ones who figure out how to respond to cyberattacks on networks, working to quickly block suspicious communications and analyze malicious behavior and software. But computers could perform the same functions — and do it much more quickly than people behind the keyboard.

But computers could perform the same functions — and do it much more quickly than people behind the keyboard. “

Source: Machines v. hackers: Cybersecurity’s artificial intelligence future – CSMonitor.com