Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 20 | Page 34

EDITOR’S QUESTION automate penetration testing, to helping ‘blue teams’ spot threats using AI based on common attack signals. At the end of the day, however, it is the human who develops the malware and targets a victim – with this in mind, security engineers know that human creativity, intuition and contextual understanding will be the strongest defences, and that they shouldn’t leave their security fortress exclusively in the hands of an automated software. “ ENFORCING AN ENTIRE ‘SET-IT- AND-FORGET- IT’ SOLUTION MAY ACTUALLY DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD IF SECURITY TEAMS DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT PROCESSES THEY WANT TO AUTOMATE. www.intelligentcio.com