Evolution in AI: from expert systems to data mining

To understand the advantages associated with the adoption of AI in the field of cybersecurity, it is necessary to introduce the underlying logic to the different methodological approaches that characterize AI.

We will start with a brief historical analysis of the evolution of AI in order to fully evaluate the potential benefits of applying it in the field of cybersecurity.

A brief introduction to expert systems

One of the first attempts at automated learning consisted of defining the rule-based decision system applied to a given application domain, covering all the possible ramifications and concrete cases that could be found in the real world. In this way, all the possible...