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. Barlow explained that when QRadar detects a potential security incident, the Watson for Cyber Security platform can do a rapid analysis.
« Watson is the brains behind the cognitive SOC, ultimately saving security analysts a whole lot of time, » Barlow said.
Watson isn’t the only tool that IBM is building to help enable its cognitive SOC strategy. IBM is now also developing a voice interface for security analysts under the name project Havyn. The idea of using voice powered assistants is becoming increasingly common in the consumer electronics world with Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, but it’s not something that has been used in security. The Havyn project makes use of Watson APIs, IBM BlueMix and IBM Cloud to give security analysts a voice interface to ask questions about security data and events.
Looking beyond just analysis, IBM’s Cognitive SOC initiative also benefits from the new IBM BigFix Detect, endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform.
« We’re adding EDR to BigFix and what it does is it helps organizations to get full visibility into the constantly changing endpoint landscape and bridge the gap between detection and remediation, » Barlow said.
IBM acquired BigFix back in July 2010 as a platform to help organization update endpoint systems with the latest patches.
« We’re now colliding the detection of endpoint risks with the ability to immediate respond and fix the endpoint, » Barlow said.
Looking forward, IBM has an aggressive strategy for continuing to grow its security capabilities. Barlow said that IBM will be focussed on security operations and response, helping organizations to build out security capabilities. Additionally he noted that IBM will be continue to innovate its identity and access capabilities.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at eWEEK and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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Qualcomm will start shipping sample chips for the next generation of Wi-Fi by June, helping device and network vendors develop products that might quadruple users’ speeds and lengthen battery life.
Qualcomm will start shipping sample chips for the next generation of Wi-Fi by June, helping device and network vendors develop products that might quadruple users’ speeds and lengthen battery life.
The new silicon uses an early version of IEEE 802.11ax , a specification designed to make wireless LANs more efficient and increase their performance as a result. The formal standard isn’t expected to be signed off until late next year , but it’s common for some components using a new standard to ship before that step takes place.
This is the next generation of Wi-Fi after 802.11ac , which is already capable of gigabit speeds with the right features and conditions. That technology is still finding its way into consumers’ devices and corporate and service-provider networks.
The new 802.11ax standard builds on some of 11ac’s tricks and adds some of its own. It’s designed to give better performance in tough situations people encounter in the real world, such as environments with many competing Wi-Fi networks. Wi-Fi is likely to coexist with – and participate in – an increasingly complex radio environment as advanced LTE and then 5G are deployed.
The specification includes using multiple antennas to send as many as 12 streams of data at the same time. But it also uses technologies from the cellular world, including traffic scheduling, which gets devices on and off the network efficiently so they don’t have to contend with each other as much.
This can help cut the power consumption of Wi-Fi by as much as two-thirds, Qualcomm says. Even users with current 11ac and older 11n devices should see better performance when they use an 11ax network, according to the company.
Qualcomm called its new product line an end-to-end portfolio because it includes silicon for both ends of a client-to-network connection. The IPQ8074 is an integrated SoC (system on chip) for enterprise access points, service-provider gateways and home Wi-Fi routers. It has four times the capacity of an 11ac part and includes features to cover a wider area and ease harmful interference in areas with many overlapping access points, Qualcomm said.
The QCA6290 is an SoC for Wi-Fi devices. It can use both the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz bands at the same time for peak speeds up to 1.8Gbps, the company said. It’s designed for uses that include 4K Ultra HD video streaming and videoconferencing and in-car Wi-Fi with multiple video streams.

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