Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence for malware detection

With the almost exponential increase in the number of threats associated with the daily spread of new malware, it is practically impossible to think of dealing with these threats effectively using only the analysis conducted by human operators.

Therefore, it is necessary to introduce algorithms that allow us to at least automate the preparatory phase of malware analysis (known as triage, deriving from the same practice adopted by doctors during the First World War, and consists of selecting for treatment the wounded that are most likely to survive). That is to say, conducting a preliminary screening of the malware to be analyzed by the malware analyst allows them to respond in a timely and effective ...