In the test phase, the platform will be available to finance, health, insurance and education companies
A recent IBM study shows that nearly 60% of security professionals believe that cognitive technologies will be instrumental in the fight against cybercrime. To be at the forefront of this market and give the industry a chance to protect itself against potential criminals, the company's Security Unit team today announces its platform Watson Beta for CyberSecurity.
In all, 40 organizations will test the Watson system's abilities against cybercrime. Among the companies are: Sun Life Financial, Medical University of Rochester, SCANA Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, California Polytechnic University, University of New Brunswick, Avnet and Smarttech. By making the beta system available to these customers, IBM hopes to continue to enhance Watson's understanding of cybersecurity and its integration into corporations' day-to-day security operations.
These customers are leveraging Watson in their security environments to gain even more data intelligence against cybercriminal attacks. Among the various functionalities that the use of IBM's cognitive platform brings to business are:
• Determine whether or not a current security attack is associated with a known malware or cybercrime campaign. If so, Watson provides information about the malware being used, the vulnerabilities exploited and the scope of the threat, among other insights.
• Better identification of suspicious behavior. Watson provides additional context to user activity and goes well beyond assessing suspicious behavior, providing better guidance for the business to understand whether or not an activity was malicious.
According to the leader of the Security Unit at IBM Brazil, Guilherme Araújo, more and more attention is needed and several industries have already realized the need to apply more intelligence in security environments to deal with cyber attacks and threats. “Watson for CyberSecurity uses technologies from the third era of computing (cognitive computing), such as learning capabilities, natural language understanding and hypothesis generation, to help security analysts make better and faster decisions based on data analysis. large amounts of unstructured data”, he clarifies.
As development of Watson for Cybersecurity continues, IBM is working to bring more advanced analytical and cognitive capabilities to other areas of its security portfolio, such as applying technologies that analyze patterns of behavior and alert the company's operations center. in case something goes out of order. This functionality was recently added to Qradar (UBA – User Behavior Analytics), at no additional cost to customers, which analyzes application behavior according to user usage. This, integrated with all cognitive intelligence, becomes a powerful weapon against cybercriminals.
In all, 40 organizations will test the Watson system's abilities against cybercrime. Among the companies are: Sun Life Financial, Medical University of Rochester, SCANA Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, California Polytechnic University, University of New Brunswick, Avnet and Smarttech. By making the beta system available to these customers, IBM hopes to continue to enhance Watson's understanding of cybersecurity and its integration into corporations' day-to-day security operations.
These customers are leveraging Watson in their security environments to gain even more data intelligence against cybercriminal attacks. Among the various functionalities that the use of IBM's cognitive platform brings to business are:
• Determine whether or not a current security attack is associated with a known malware or cybercrime campaign. If so, Watson provides information about the malware being used, the vulnerabilities exploited and the scope of the threat, among other insights.
• Better identification of suspicious behavior. Watson provides additional context to user activity and goes well beyond assessing suspicious behavior, providing better guidance for the business to understand whether or not an activity was malicious.
According to the leader of the Security Unit at IBM Brazil, Guilherme Araújo, more and more attention is needed and several industries have already realized the need to apply more intelligence in security environments to deal with cyber attacks and threats. “Watson for CyberSecurity uses technologies from the third era of computing (cognitive computing), such as learning capabilities, natural language understanding and hypothesis generation, to help security analysts make better and faster decisions based on data analysis. large amounts of unstructured data”, he clarifies.
As development of Watson for Cybersecurity continues, IBM is working to bring more advanced analytical and cognitive capabilities to other areas of its security portfolio, such as applying technologies that analyze patterns of behavior and alert the company's operations center. in case something goes out of order. This functionality was recently added to Qradar (UBA – User Behavior Analytics), at no additional cost to customers, which analyzes application behavior according to user usage. This, integrated with all cognitive intelligence, becomes a powerful weapon against cybercriminals.
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