This post is co-authored by Salma Taoufiq and Harini Kannan from Sophos.
As a leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos strives to protect more than 500,000 organizations and millions of customers across over 150 countries against evolving threats. Powered by threat intelligence, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence from Sophos X-Ops, Sophos delivers a broad and varied portfolio of advanced products and services to secure and defend users, networks, and endpoints against phishing, ransomware, malware, and the wide range of cyberattacks out there.
The Sophos Artificial Intelligence (AI) group (SophosAI) oversees the development and maintenance of Sophos’s major ML security technology. Security is a big-data problem. To evade detection, cybercriminals are constantly crafting novel attacks. This translates into colossal threat datasets that the group must work with to best defend customers. One notable example is the detection and elimination of files that were cunningly laced with malware, where the datasets are

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