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Rabat – The Tel Aviv Cybertech global summit, which kicked off on Tuesday, has introduced innovative, state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions that help protect organizations against cyberattacks and safeguard their data, including Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The large-scale event brought together 20,000 people from across the world, including high-level delegations of cybersecurity experts, government officials, and local authorities.
Microsoft was among the companies that introduced their cybersecurity tools and services. Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk highlighted her company’s “holistic cybersecurity approach” to creating a “complex and multidimensional” security graph.
Speaking during the opening day of the summit, Blumenstyk stressed that it is not enough to have “expert defenses for each area,” including endpoints, IoT (Internet of things), and the cloud, to achieve a strong defense against cyberattacks.
She explained that organizations should “leverage the power of AI and the power of the cloud,” arguing that using data from the cloud would provide a “holistic picture” and an “integrated view.”
Through analyzing enormous amounts of data from the cloud, AI is capable of identifying vulnerabilities, threats, and potential attacks in cyberspace, which in turn would offer an “effective” cybersecurity defense, she added.
Blumenstyk provided data to back up her argument and show that “the more data that you have, the more your machine learning models can learn and become more effective.”
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Microsoft uses 43 trillion signals per day to “feed” its learning machine models, which are the “heart” of the company’s security product, she said, noting that Microsoft provides its security services to 820,000 organizations across the world.
Having access to the data of such a large number of organizations further strengthens Microsoft’s position in cybersecurity, as it provides the company’s machine learning models with extensive data providing protection for the future.
Conference at the Cybertech global summit in Tel Aviv
Microsoft’s cybersecurity approach to using AI proved to be effective, as the American technology corporation managed to block more than 70 billion cyberattacks in 2022, Blumenstyk said.
Amid the increasing cyber security threats and successive attacks, Blumenstyk emphasized the urgent need for cybersecurity experts, companies, academia, and governments to form a coalition, even with their competitors, to share expertise and collectively counter cyber crimes.
“Technology is not enough … It is a war. We, the defenders, the industry, and the free world, are in a war against the cyber criminals, and like in every war, we need a coalition,” she stressed.
