The term "AI" is all too readily applied to just about everything today, including phone cameras, washing machines and voice-activated assistants. Can we confidently describe cyber-defences as "leveraging" AI?

Because artificial minds can't predict the future (so can't spot zero-day attacks per se), it's in the specifics of cyber protection that self-learning algorithms are proving their value.

Darktrace's Antigena platform learns patterns of normality in network traffic and entity behaviour, and highlights whatever it thinks is "a bit weird." Another red flag raising traffic monitor (among all the other ones)? Darktrace offers a month-long trial to try and convince you. We investigate!

The Antigena home page:

https://www.darktrace.com/en/products/antigena/

Interested in learning more, or perhaps putting the code through its real-world paces?

https://customers.darktrace.com/en/trial/

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