Gaining a Strategic Endpoint Security Advantage in the Era of Advanced Threats: ML and AI

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against Advanced Threats

Published February 2019

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The 2017 Frost & Sullivan/(ISC) Global Information Workforce Study concluded that by 2022, the industry would face a 1.8 million worker shortfall. The same study confirmed how widespread knowledge of this shortfall has become: two-thirds (66%) of the nearly 20,000 information security professionals surveyed indicated that they have too few workers on staff to meet their day-to-day needs. Smaller organizations, in particular, may have difficulties competing for or retaining top talent, which can lead to an overtaxed security team.