IBM Ushers in the New Era of Cognitive Security

Cognitive security is built upon security intelligence. Cognitive solutions generate not just answers, but hypotheses, evidence-based reasoning and recommendations for improved decision making in real time. As a result, cognitive security will help address the current skills gap, accelerate responses and help reduce the cost and complexity of dealing with cybercrime. Think about the 75,000+ documented software vulnerabilities, 10,000+ security research papers published each year and 60,000+ security blogs published each month. What’s possible now is the ability to quickly interpret this data — created by humans for humans — and integrate it with structured data from countless sources and locations. Security firms now have the means to mine both structured and unstructured data, and continuously extract features and patterns to provide context in real time. The result: Security analysts, armed with this collective knowledge and instinct, will be able to respond to threats with greater confidence and speed.  Cognitive security will empower security analysts with the capabilities to find early warnings of potential attacks and significantly speed detection. Cybercriminals will find the payoffs to be harder and harder to achieve. Can cognitive security fulfill its mission by mitigating cyber crime? Share your comments with the Cloud and Cyber Security Center: http://cloudandcybersecurity.blogspot.com/