Securing all of the things - Val Batchellor - Ep44

It's not news to anyone listening to this show that the challenge around the security of our data and systems is a substantial one. Our technology seems to be under constant threat, from external hackers, to insiders, from targeted attacks to malware finding its way randomly onto our systems and causing havoc and all of this before we look at increased regulation and compliance demands. The ever-increasing threat has led to us looking to technology to help protect our systems, however this has now led to its own problems, with many of us investing in numerous platforms and tools which has created a huge sprawl of solutions, that do not interact, all have their own consoles and all are presenting us with alerts and notifications that we then expect our already stretched IT function to understand and act upon. It is this problem that has inspired this series of Tech Interviews episodes looking at the security challenge. In this first show, I'm joined by Valory Batchellor of IBM as we discuss their immune system approach. We explore the current and evolving threat, the challenges presented by multiple, disjointed security tools and we also discuss the future and how machine learning and artificial intelligence could give us an infinite amount of security analysts, working on an infinite amount of security problems, with unlimited resources! Valory provides some fantastic insight with a real enthusiasm and obvious expertise for her subject, so enjoy the show as we look to "secure all of the things". Next week I'm joined by Harry Keen from anon.ai as we look at data anonymization and the part it plays in data security. To catch that show, why not subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher. Thanks for listening Full show notes are here... http://wp.me/p4IvtA-1si