IBM’s Watson for Cyber Security platform is now generally available, helping to enable a new generation of Cognitive Security Operations Centers.
After months of training, IBM’s Watson for Cyber Security platform is now ready for the market and will help to enable a new generation of Cognitive Security Operations Centers.
IBM announced a series of new cognitive computing powered cybersecurity products and services on Feb. 13, including the general availability of Watson for Cyber Security.
IBM has been training its Watson cognitive computing platform to understand cyber security since May 2016 and had a beta launch in December 2016.
“Watson has been on a journey to learn the language of cyber security, it has gone through its internship and now it’s ready to go to work,” Caleb Barlow, VP of Threat Intelligence, IBM Security, told eWEEK .
Barlow added that Watson is able to find potential security risks in minutes, thanks to its ability to parse through large volumes of unstructured data rapidly. The Watson for Cyber Security technology will now help to enable IBM’s new Cognitive Security Operations Center (SOC) platform.
Among the services that are part of the IBM SOC platform is the QRadar Advisor with Watson offering, that uses Watson to help understand data that comes from the QRadar Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform.
