Scott Stevens, SVP, Global Systems Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, discusses how the company uses AI, machine learning, and big data to find and block malware for its customers in an interview with Jeff Frick of theCUBE which is covering RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco.

We Find 20-30 Thousand New Pieces of Malware Every Day

There are two ways to think about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics. The first is if we?re looking at how are we dealing with malware and finding unknown malware and blocking it, we?ve been doing that for years. The platform we have uses big data analytics and machine learning in the cloud to process and find all of the unknown malware, make it known and be able to block it.

We find 20-30 thousand brand new pieces of malware every day. We?re analyzing millions and millions of files every day to figure out which ones are malicious. Once we know, within five minutes we?re updating the security posture for all of our connected security devices globally.

Whether it?s endpoint software or it?s our inline next gen firewalls we?re updating all of our signatures so that the unknown is now known and the known can be blocked. That?s whether we?re watching to block the malware coming in or the command-and-control that?s using via DNS and URL to communicate and start whatever it?s going to do. You mentioned crypto lockers and there are all kinds of things that can happen. That?s one vector of using AI NML to prevent the ability for these attacks to succeed.

?The platform we have uses big data analytics and machine learning in the cloud to process and find all of the unknown malware, make it known and be able to block it,? says Scott Stevens, SVP, Global Systems Engineering at Palo Alto Networks. ?We find 20-30 thousand brand new pieces of malware every day. We?re analyzing millions and millions of files every day to figure out which ones are malicious. Once we know, within five minutes we?re updating the security posture for all of our connected security devices globally.?

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