Intelligent CISO Issue 11 | Page 67

decrypting myths Four common misconceptions about cybersecurity, Recent nation state cyberattacks have created many mistaken beliefs regarding cybersecurity concepts and solutions. Adenike Cosgrove, Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint, debunks the four most common misconceptions circulating the cybersecurity space right now. Misconception #1: “Machine MISCONCEPTION #1: Learning is just a buzzword, “Machine Learning is just ‘real enterprise solutions’ don’t use a buzzword, ‘real enterprise Machine Learning.” solutions’ don’t use Machine Learning.” Although it is true that Machine Learning is a buzzword across the industry, saying that ‘real enterprise solutions’ don’t use Machine Learning is completely false. When Machine Learning is properly implemented, it can help answer a whole array of data-heavy problems such as threat analysis and threat detection. A limited number of cybersecurity providers are beginning to leverage Machine Learning throughout their portfolio to benefit from the advanced offering it can provide. It can help process relationships across billions of threat data points and help identify emails with violations for regulatory purposes. As the need grows to reconcile large amounts of data for greater insight, Machine Learning will continue to have a role in nearly every aspect of our business. www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 11 As the need grows to reconcile large amounts of data for greater insight, Machine Learning will continue to have a role in nearly every aspect of our business. Misconception #2: “If your MISCONCEPTION #2: “If at your solution is good enough solution is good enough at catching bad stuff, you don’t catching bad stuff, you don’t need to sandbox.” need to sandbox.” Having strong static analysis and reputation-based technologies 67