Monday, February 13, 2017
IBM announces availability of Watson for security operations centres
Tech Gaint IBM has announced the availability of Watson for cyber
security, the industry's first
augmented intelligence
technology designed to power cognitive security operations
centres (SOCs).
With Watson, people can analyse and interpret all of their data, including unstructured text, images, audio and video. They can provide personalised recommendations by understanding a user's personality, tone and emotion.
With Watson, people can analyse and interpret all of their data, including unstructured text, images, audio and video. They can provide personalised recommendations by understanding a user's personality, tone and emotion.
The idea behind Watson for cyber security is to take advantage of
Watson’s leading AI, machine learning and natural language processing
capabilities to help security analysts make better, faster decisions from vast
amounts of data,” Vaidyanathan Iyer, Business Unit Executive, IBM Security,
told IANS.
According to IBM research, security teams sift
through more than 200,000 security events per day on average, leading to over
20,000 hours per year wasted chasing false positives.1 The need to introduce
cognitive technologies into security operations centers will be critical to
keep up with the anticipated doubling of security incidents over the next five
years and increased regulation globally.
Watson for Cyber Security will
be integrated into IBM's new Cognitive SOC platform, bringing together advanced
cognitive technologies with security operations and providing the ability to
respond to threats across endpoints, networks, users and cloud. The centerpiece
of this platform is IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson, the first tool that taps
into Watson's corpus of cybersecurity insights. This new app is already being
used by Avnet, University of New Brunswick, Sopra Steria and 40 other customers
globally to augment security analysts' investigations into security incidents.
With
the dramatic growth in security events, IBM has also invested in research to
bring cognitive tools into its global X-Force Command Center network, including
a Watson-powered chatbot currently being used to interact with IBM Managed
Security Services customers. IBM also revealed a new research project,
code-named Havyn, pioneering a voice-powered security assistant that leverages
Watson conversation technology to respond to verbal commands and natural
language from security analysts.
"Today's sophisticated cybersecurity threats
attack on multiple fronts to conceal their activities, and our security
analysts face the difficult task of pinpointing these attacks amongst a massive
sea of security-related data," said Sean Valcamp, Chief Information
Security Officer at Avnet. "Watson makes concealment efforts more
difficult by quickly analyzing multiple streams of data and comparing it with
the latest security attack intelligence to provide a more complete picture of
the threat. Watson also generates reports on these threats in a matter of
minutes, which greatly speeds the time between detecting a potential event and
my security team's ability to respond accordingly."
The
centrepiece of this platform is IBM "QRadar Advisor with Watson", the
first tool that taps into Watson's corpus of cybersecurity insights. The IBM
QRadar Advisor with Watson app brings cognitive capabilities to aid security
analysts in their investigations and remediation through IBM's QRadar security
intelligence platform.
IBM's global network of "X-Force Command
Centres" are using IBM's cognitive capabilities like QRadar Advisor with
Watson to enhance the investigation of security events.
"This new app is already being used by Avnet,
University of New Brunswick, Sopra Steria and 40 other customers globally to
augment security analysts' investigations into security incidents," the
company said.
IBM will also help clients design, build and manage
cognitive security operations centres globally through IBM "Managed
Security Services".
About IBM Security
IBM Security offers one of the most advanced and integrated portfolios of enterprise security products and services. The portfolio, supported by world-renowned IBM X-Force® research, enables organizations to effectively manage risk and defend against emerging threats. IBM operates one of the world's broadest security research, development and delivery organizations, monitors 35 billion security events per day in more than 130 countries, and holds more than 3,000 security patents. For more information, please visit www.ibm.com/security, follow @IBMSecurity on Twitter or visit the IBM Security Intelligence blog.Required Disclaimer Language:
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