Forbes Reports with ProtectedIT: Automation In The Cybersecurity World

Originally published in Forbes by Damian Ehrlicher, CEO of Protected IT

In today's day and age of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), the number of organizations leveraging these technological advances to mitigate risk is growing quickly. As fast as the cybersecurity community can develop new solutions predicated on these technologies, malicious actors are developing tools leveraging these technologies as well. In days past, automation in the NOC/SOC was used to deploy new services or run a set of standard tests when a specific ticket came through the system. Now ticket enrichment is only part of the solution because software automation has made its way into the cybersecurity space.

Leveraging threat intelligence tools via AI/ML and then automating the incident response is becoming increasingly popular.

It's not because the industry doesn't value "eyes on glass" or people analyzing the data, but it's because there are roughly 3.5 million open jobs globally in the cybersecurity space. Read more here