IBM Watson Steps Into Real-World Cybersecurity

IBM has launched the Watson for Cyber Security beta program to encourage companies to include Watson in their current security environments. The problem with unstructured data is knowing when one piece of information is more valuable than another and which sources of information are more reliable. But the beauty of Watson is that ‘crucial nuggets of knowledge filter up,’ in a form security professionals can use, Nasir Memon, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, said in a recent InfoWorld video interview about cognitive computing and Watson for Cybersecurity.