PREDI C TI VE I NTEL L I GE NC E
With the machine doing the brunt of the
monitoring work within the network, the
human agent need not intervene until an
entity risk score gets above the threshold.
the actor, to make an informed decision.
These developments could ultimately
change the range of jobs on offer within
IT security. Security staff will move from
being the operational proponent within
the network, to making the decisions
that could determine the security of
the network. On the other hand, the
security manager might become the
policy manager, determining the various
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policies and credentials necessary to
access business networks.
Whilst the approaches of human workers
might change during the roll-out of this
technology throughout enterprises, their
work will be no less important. They
will still need to build security into the
core of the network, regardless of the
technology already in place.
As the world moves into a state of
‘data as commodity’, the network is
still the most important infrastructure
to maintain and keep safe as it is the
first line of defence. It’s time to start
thinking about these developments as
they become more prevalent because
human IT staff need all the help they
can get when combating increasingly
intelligent threats. u
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