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Preventing Data Breaches with Cognitive Computing

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Manufactured securityby Angela Guess

Rhonda Childress of IBM recently wrote in Forbes, “There’s been no shortage of companies in the news for data leaks in the past decade as a result of hacking, inside jobs, poor security and other reason. My personal credit card information was compromised twice in 2015 because of data breaches, and in each case, I had to get a replacement card and closely monitor accounts to determine fraudulent charges. It’s a frustrating experience that makes consumers wonder whether they’re doing something wrong. In many cases, though, security failures are outside an individual’s control. On an individual consumer level, data breaches can cause a lot of frustration; on a corporate scale, they can be catastrophic.”

Childress goes on, “In many industries, organizations are looking for ways to protect their customers and themselves from security dangers in the age of big data. Today, businesses and data security leaders are looking for ways to better anticipate and even predict threats before they happen. Companies have a huge amount of data to process and very little time to do it, and new forms of targeted attacks have evolved. These new threats require new thinking, and that’s where the latest cognitive capabilities can help. Traditional security approaches looked at a company’s known information. They may have also added a level of data by bringing in expertise from a particular industry or looking at data breaches that happened in similar companies. What are the common attacks in finance or healthcare, for example? What can I learn from my peers?”

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