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IT bosses are crossing their fingers that biometrics and artificial intelligence will save them from security vulnerabilities that can emerge from an ever expanding corporate network. That's the conclusion Oracle has come to based on a June 2018 survey it carried out of almost 300 tech decision-makers, which found that infosec …

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  1. JetSetJim

    Lots of publications around on AI for network security analysis - although I suspect that at the end of the day it all boils down to lists of parameterised patterns of acceptable traffic flows.

    I wonder if the new buzz phrase will end up being "SecOps"

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    1. Nick Ryan Silver badge
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      Very similar to a meme/joke I came across a while ago:

      A programmers take on AI: A few more if statements have been added.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    AI

    Matthew 24:5 has relevance then?

    Or Luke 21:8!

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    1. Mayday
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      Meh

      Re: AI

      I don't care enough to look either of those up.

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      1. Jarndyce
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        Re: AI

        In derivation:

        "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am AI; and shall deceive many"

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  3. cbars Bronze badge

    Biometrics

    69% use Biometrics? What? Who are these people and what are they doing that helps secure networks? Does this just mean people accessing email on their iPhones using fingerprint/FaceId?

    "69% of respondants have thrown away passwords and instead are just using usernames, encoded as biometric data points"

    seriously, I am curious! A fingerprint scanner to allow HTTPS through the corporate firewall......?

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    1. Giovani Tapini
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      Re: Biometrics

      Biometric is just a password.

      Depending on the metric can be forged, duplicated, or sliced off/out of its owner with varying degrees of difficulty.

      I thought the 2FA was the element that was bringing demonstrable benefits in threat reduction anyway.

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      1. cbars Bronze badge
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        Headmaster

        Re: Biometrics

        I almost agree, except biometrics are usernames which cannot be changed. They identify, they don't authorise. Passwords are secret, faces aren't.

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