Certainly there's progress. There's a bunch of companies that are doing AI/ML analysis with less than 10%-15% false positives, but I think we're still early. This is going to work, but it's not going to be ...read more

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What do you wish security professionals would start/stop doing?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software3 years ago

We have to better communicate about threat. Still today, we have 16 iSCSI, 1000s of people on iSCSI, but nobody communicates the real substance. They keep talking about IOCs. To me, IOCs are stale fish. After 10 minutes, ...read more

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Why aren’t today’s tools sufficient to prevent cyberattacks?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software3 years ago

I spent about six years at Visa building data platforms and AI. On that journey, I saw a couple of problems. The volume, variety, and velocity of the kinds of alerts security operators look at was unmanageable. It took us ...read more

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What is the most overlooked step in a cybersecurity plan?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software3 years ago

No matter what you do, how many of our data we're going to invest, there could be certain things penetrating that perimeter. When that does happen, what kind of incident response plan is in place? What are you going to ...read more

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What does it mean to be a “data company”?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software3 years ago

Rather than trying to look at the perimeter, you keep hearing, don't trust anything. You have seen ZTA all over the place, let's go to Zero Trust. Fantastic. That's great. But how do you start opening it up? Again, ...read more

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What is the most irritating thing about the vendor ecosystem for cybersecurity solutions?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software3 years ago

Every company is an AI company with 70% false positives, that's not going to help. It's about what is your accuracy level? How often can you act on that? A lot of false promises. The industry not only has to deal ...read more

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What is your biggest challenge when trying to consolidate security tools?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software3 years ago

My observation is there were too many point solutions. There is a flavor of the month compliance. GDPR happens and a whole bunch of tools pop up that go after GDPR. Then something else happens, so you want SAS security, there ...read more

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What does good cybersecurity hygiene look like?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software3 years ago

Knowing what you have in your environment and what all those things are doing on a 24/7 basis, so you can catch it while it's happening, instead of six months later. I look at networks, and I'll see a windows machine ...read more

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Are there any ethical concerns you have about implementing AI/ML?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software4 years ago

I'm in healthcare, and what we're trying to do is develop drugs. Right now it's like a 10 year cycle, so we're trying to find a way to speed that up. There's a lot of ethics involved in AI/ML on what you can access when you're ...read more

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When evaluating AI/ML offerings, how do you decide which is best for you and your organization?

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Anil EarlaHead of Information and Data Analytics at Visa in Software4 years ago

Probably one of the more difficult things, I find, is trying to keep up with all the tech, but also be pragmatic in the process. Because it's easy to go out and want to buy all the new cool stuff. But is it really realistic ...read more

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