IBM Watson is going to the cyber school

It's no secret that most of the world's wisdom is in unstructured data, or pretend not necessarily quantitatively and accurately. Thus, cybersecurity, and IBM Watson now put to work to make this knowledge more accessible.
To this end, IBM Security on Tuesday announced a new one-year research project, through which will collaborate with eight universities to help train its Watson artificial intelligence system to combat cyber crime.
Knowing about threats, often hidden in unstructured sources such as blogs, research reports and documents, said Kevin Skapinetz, IBM's security strategy director.
"For example, today there is an article about a new type of malicious software, the next group of blogs," explained Skapinetz. "Essentially what we do is teach Watson not only to understand that there are these documents, but to add context and make connections between them."
Over the past year, IBM's own security experts mine have been working to teach Watson "cybersecurity language," he said. This was achieved mainly due to the presentation of its thousands of documents annotated to help the system understand the threat, what it does, and what indicators are linked, for example.
"You go through the document annotation process, not only for nouns and verbs, and it all means that together," said Skapinetz. "So, Watson can begin to make the association."
Currently, IBM is committed to accelerate the learning process. This fall, she will start working with students at universities, including California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, Penn State, MIT, New York University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, along with universities from Canada, New Brunswick, Ottawa and Waterloo.
During the year, intended to feed up to 15,000 new documents per month in Watson, including threat reports cyber strategy threat data base materials and its own X-Force research library. X-Force is 20 years in the security research field, including about 8 million spam and phishing attacks, and more than 100,000 registered vulnerabilities.
The natural language processing Watson possibilities to help you solve the mountains of unstructured data. Your data mining methods will help detect emissions, and their graphical presentation tools help find connections between points in various documents related data, says IBM.
Ultimately, the result is a cloud service called Watson to cyber-security, which was developed to provide guidance on emerging threats, as well as recommendations on how to stop them.
Some 60,000 security blogs are published every month, and this is just one of many sources of information professionals in the field of cybersecurity should try to keep up, Skapinetz said.
"You can understand why even the best analysts are missing a lot of information out there," he said. "What we want to do is take some of the guesswork and help analysts understand more context forever consultant who can help investigate and answer questions."
IBM plans to begin beta deployment of production this year.