BlackBerry/Cylance Focuses on AI for Cybersecurity—but Humans Have Role, Too
BlackBerry's buying artificial intelligence cybersecurity company Cylance for $1.4 billion cash in BlackBerry's biggest deal adds AI expertise to secure more devices, executives at both companies said Friday. BlackBerry can use the technology in its products, said CEO John Chen…
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Friday. The deal is expected to close by Feb. 28. Cylance technologies require “a minimum amount of code, resulting in us using less memory and power ... a very key point going forward for our smart platform,” he said. The companies' vision "is to secure and connect every endpoint,” said Cylance CEO Stuart McClure. Humans still have a cybersecurity role, though. If an attack should “bypass” Cylance’s AI, it's “the human’s job to understand what happened, how it was bypassed, and what new features or characteristics we need to train the machines on,” he said.