Creating real-time defenses
The previous section discussed how to use ML to augment your existing security, but it didn’t mention when the solution will kick in. A problem exists for most network administrators and the developers who support them in that most strategies are either static or reactive. A real-time defense would be proactive and dynamic because hackers aren’t going to wait until a network administrator can marshal forces formidable enough to keep them at bay. Networks can become overwhelmed by a lack of adequate real-time protection. What is really needed is real-time Detection, Analysis, and Mitigation (DAM).
Mary Mapes Dodge published the novel Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates in 1865. The novel is the story about Hans and the silver skates he wants to win, but it also contains an interesting little side story about a Dutch boy who plugs a hole in a dam with his finger and saves his people (see https://marleenswritings.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/the...