Amir Husain: Within our own area of cyber security, one of the things that’s happening at the large-scale level is that cyber security is being weaponized. This is very sad but it’s true. Cyber security is now becoming a weapon of warfare. You’ve seen where digital weaponry was used to rollback the Iranian nuclear program
Amir Husain: There are lots of examples where we found binaries that were not registering on any one of the 60 different anti-virus engines and yet our machine learning anti-virus capability gave them threat rating as high as 80%. As we actually investigated the envelope manually, we discovered that there was an embedded threat, and
Sramana Mitra: I have a question in that context. There’s a lot of processing going on midstream of traffic coming in. Is it all happening in real time? How do you deal with delays and latencies? Amir Husain: First of all, we’re not blocking things until the final answer arrives. In other words, we’re not
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take one of your customers and double-click down. In that use case, what I’d like to understand is where is the traffic being intercepted, how is it being modelled, what parameters is it being modelled against, and what is the nature of the AI algorithm driving this kind of predictive modelling. Amir
This interview could just as well be a part of our Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence (TLAI) series. It sits at the cusp of Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, an area where much is happening. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to SparkCognition. Amir Husain: I’m the Founder