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The world was awed two years ago when IBM’s Watson defeated Jeopardy! champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson’s brilliant victory reintroduced the potential of machine learning to the public. Ideas flowed, and now this technology is being applied practically in the fields of healthcare, finance and education. Emulating human learning, Watson’s success lies in […]
Wake up! It’s the insider threat you need to worry about
THE INSIDER THREAT IS DETECTABLE AND LOSSES ARE PREVENTABLE WITH EARLY DETECTION Edward Snowden is the new face of the insider threat, the media even calls him the “Ultimate Insider Threat”. This is someone who has the highest-level security clearance, endures a background reinvestigation every 5 years, takes a polygraph exam, and still betrays his […]
Tech that finds bad guys (and girls too)
A hotel worker in China entered Frank’s room while he was away at dinner and installed a new type of spyware on his laptop. The spyware traveled home with Frank, waiting to connect to the corporate network. Once behind the firewall the spyware infected hosts, generated link charts of business relationships, harvested intellectual property, and […]
