AI, machine learning and cybersecurity

Machine learning and AI help processors outsmart cybercriminals

The malware families used by hackers are largely well known to the IT security community, and thus the means of mitigating their impact is understood. The key is having effective people in place that know how to use those tools to protect the IT/OT environment. Image courtesy of gorodenkoff / Getty Images

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Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.